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The Quebec government began restricting travel to and from eight remote regions of the province and began posting police along the province’s border with the United States to track returning travellers as four more deaths from COVID-19 were reported for the province on Saturday.

Deputy Premier Geneviève Guilbault announced the latest measures at the government’s daily briefing on the evolution of the crisis as the latest figures showed a further increase in cases of the new coronavirus in the province.

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The four latest deaths bring the number of fatalities in Quebec to 22, while the number of confirmed cases jumped by 477 from Friday to Saturday. Quebec now has 2,498 confirmed cases of COVID-19. Another 6,757 cases were under investigation as of Saturday.

The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 also rose from Friday to Saturday, to 164. Of those, 57 patients are in intensive care.