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  • Regional Update: 4 hospitalizations, 75 active cases

    Vaccination Update

    The Quebec government has announced that a second dose of the vaccination has been administered in all CHSLDs in the province.

    The following is the vaccination schedule per age group. To book an appointment click here, there are currently many availabilities in the region.

    • People 16+ who have a chronic health condition included in this list.
    • People 16+ who have a physical or intellectual disability.
    • Essential workers deemed at high risk of contagion (school staff, public safety workers, community organizations PSOC and summer camp staff.
    • Health and social service workers
    • Pregnant women
    • 30 and up – current
    • 25 and up – May 12
    • 18 and up – May 14

    Regional portait

    Total casesNew CasesVariant CasesActive Cases
    1916+128175
    Recovered CasesCurrent Hosp.Total Hosp.Deaths
    1795 4 (+1)135 46
    MRCCases since March 2020Rate per 1000Active Cases
    Avignon422 28.7<5
    Bonaventure406 22.919
    Rocher-Percé470 (+4)27.5n.d.
    Côte-de-Gaspé488 (+2) 2813
    Haute-Gaspésie79 (+6) 7.231
    Îles-de-la Madeleine 514.00
    Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine 191621.175

    Provincial portrait

    Total casesNew CasesRecovered CasesDeaths
    358,796622339,66010,993 (+6)
    Total
    Hospitalizations
    ICU
    Hospitalizations
    Vaccinations
    Received
    Vaccinations Administered
    543 (+4)123 (-1)4,119,4393,781,451
  • Mother’s Day

    Dear Mother

    To one who bears the sweetest name,

    And adds lustre to the same.

    Long life to her, for there’s no other.

    Who takes the place of my dear mother.


    Everything Mom

    How did you find the energy, Mom

    To do all the things you did,

    To be a teacher, nurse and counsellor

    To me, when I was a kid?

    How did you do it all, Mom,

    Be a chauffeur, cook and friend,

    Yet find time to be a playmate?

    I just can’t comprehend.

    I see now it was love, mom

    That made you come when I would call.

    Your inexhaustible love, Mom

    And I thank you for it all.


    Mom expressions

    A face only a mother could love

    A mother hen

    Be tied to mother’s apron strings

    Experience is the mother of wisdom

    Mother Nature

    A mama’s boy

    He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.

    Like mother, like daughter

    Necessity is the mother of intervention

    Mother’s milk

    Mother tongue or mother country

    Mothers and daughters are closest when daughters become mothers.

    I never knew how much love my heart could hold until someone called me mommy.

    Life doesn’t come with a manual; it comes with a mother.


    Guinness Book of World Records:

    The greatest recorded number of children born to one mother is 69. This was in the 1700’s in Russia. In 27 pregnancies, M. Vassilyeva gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets. So, 16 x 2 = 32 plus 7 x 3 = 21 plus 4 x 4 = 16 for a total of 69 babies.