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COVID-19 continued its unforgiving march into new areas of the country on Monday, sweeping through long-term care homes and religious communities and into vulnerable regions as the federal government brought in new domestic travel restrictions. In Quebec, the number of cases spiked to 3,430, while three new deaths brought the total to 25. The new total of cases in Ontario rose to 1,706 — including 431 resolved cases and 23 deaths, which health officials attributed at least in part to clearing a backlog of pending test results. Meanwhile, Newfoundland and Labrador, which has one of the highest per-capita rates of infection, reported a 78-year-old man with underlying health conditions had died. He is the first COVID-19 related fatality in the province.