Quebec Premier: Provincial police looking to use cell phone data to track the movements of people infected with COVID-19

Quebec Premier Francois Legault says provincial police are looking into using cell phone data to track the movements of people infected with COVID-19.

The premier said today police are not currently using that kind of data but may in the future.

Quebec is among many jurisdictions across the world that are either considering or already using electronic data to monitor people infected with the virus and those they come into contact with.

Quebec Premier Francois Legault says the province recorded 25 more deaths related to COVID-19 since the day prior, bringing the provincial total to 61.

But Legault said today the majority of the new recorded deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours, because the province had been investigating 20 prior fatalities to see whether they had been the result of COVID-19.

The premier says the province recorded an additional 583 positive cases of COVID-19, for a total of 6,101, and another 64 hospitalizations including 26 patients in intensive care.

Legault says medical authorities are planning to present to the public a series of projections related to COVID-19 next Tuesday.