Good evening to you. We begin with COVID-19 and the latest news around the Omicron variant. Quebec confirmed its first case of the variant today in a woman who had travelled to Nigeria. Provincial Health Minister Christian Dubé said that about 115 travellers from southern African countries have been asked to take a new COVID-19 test and isolate.

Of the new cases of COVID-19 reported in Quebec, 417 are among unvaccinated people or those less than two weeks removed from a COVID-19 vaccine.

Starting in January, expectant mothers in the Northwest Territories and western Nunavut will be heading to Edmonton to give birth.