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‘Strong possibility’ of 17 monkeypox cases in Montreal area, health officials say

Public health authorities are investigating 17 suspected cases of monkeypox in the Montreal area.

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COVID-19: Health officials confirm 95 cases of Omicron in Montreal, expect more to come

COVID-19 variant Wednesday, where cases of community transmission of the variant have been reported.“This is not the place we expected to be two weeks before the holidays,” said the city’s public health director, Dr. Mylene Drouin, during a media briefing.

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COVID-19: Pressure mounting on Montreal hospitals amid pandemic’s fourth wave

COVID-19 continues to increase.Regional public health director Dr.

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COVID-19: Montreal says city on track with vaccination strategy, cautions more work ahead

COVID-19 vaccine, public health confirmed on Wednesday, as the city said it was on track with its immunization campaign.Health officials say over 75 per cent of people aged 60 or older in the city have responded to the call to get their first shot against the novel coronavirus as Montreal public health said the vaccine rollout in the city is ramping up and moving rapidly.However, the city’s public health director, Dr. Mylène Drouin, said there’s still a way to go before the city can reach herd immunity and envision fully opening back up.Drouin said it will take at least 75 per cent of the population to have received both doses of the vaccine to reach herd immunity.

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Montreal bracing for third wave as COVID-19 cases linked to variants increase in the city

COVID-19 restrictions on Tuesday for the provinces red and orange zones, aimed at curbing the spread of cases linked to variants.The new measures coming into effect in Montreal include the closure of gyms, the return to hybrid learning for high school students in grades 9,10 and 11, and reducing the maximum capacity in places of worship to 25 people.Montreal’s top doctor says that while the situation has been stable in the city, unlike other regions of the province where the third wave has taken hold, the rise in variants is a concern.“Variants now make up 42 per cent of new cases,” said Dr. Mylène Drouin, during a press conference on Wednesday.

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Parents of schoolchildren in parts of Montreal being moved to front of COVID-19 vaccination line

COVID-19 variants in a bid to quash transmission and limit cases in those areas.The move comes after Dr. Mylène Drouin, director of Montreal public health, said Wednesday that the Snowdon-Plamondon district and the city of Côte Saint-Luc have seen a rise in cases of variants, which are more contagious.“The virus is moving from one place to another,” she told reporters Thursday during a press conference.She explained targeted vaccination will last two weeks in order to get variants under control in the city’s west end and to prevent the spread to other parts of Montreal.

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City ‘can push back’ third COVID-19 wave with vigilance and vaccination, Montreal’s top doctor says

COVID-19 pandemic.Dr. Mylène Drouin, director of the local public health department, explained that the region has struck a “high plateau” with an average of 325 new cases per day.

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Montreal public health aims to clamp down on COVID-19 variants

coronavirus variants.Dr. Mylène Drouin, director of the city’s public health department, said Wednesday that variants have been detected in up to eight to 10 per cent of new COVID-19 cases.There have been 22 outbreaks linked to them — some of which have already ended — since January, she added.

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Coronavirus: Montreal welcomes news on vaccines as concerns over variants grow

Montreal Public Health Director Dr. Mylene Drouin reacted on Wednesday to news that Quebec will begin vaccinating elderly members of the general public against COVID-19 starting next week, saying the news is welcome as the city and province are looking to “push back” against new coronavirus variants.

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Coronavirus crisis improving in Montreal, but public health worried about variant cases

coronavirus outbreaks in schools and the arrival of different COVID-19 variants in the city.Dr. Mylène Drouin, director of Montreal public health, said Wednesday that the city has struck a “high plateau” of about 500 new infections per day.The positivity rate has dropped to about 6.6 per cent for Montreal, but some neighbourhoods stand at 10 per cent — including Parc-Extension and Côte-des-Neiges.“We are still at a very red area,” Drouin said, referring to the city’s colour-code designation.Drouin said there are nine confirmed cases and 23 presumed infections linked to variants of the virus.

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Multiple changes to religious gathering directions create confusion for Outremont Hasidic community

Montreal police intervene on illegal gatherings, ramp up presence in Outremont and Plateau-Mont-Royal In an email obtained by Global News, a Montreal public health director sent the community a note on Saturday evening clarifying the religious gathering guidelines. He wrote “a maximum of 10 people (is allowed) in a house of worship at any given time.”Then on Sunday, the same director sent another email saying “”in situations where there are multiple non-contiguous zones within one building, simultaneous gatherings of 10 people are allowed if they are held in zones with completely distinct entrances to the outside.”Finally on Monday, an email from public health director Dr.

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Montreal hospitals ‘at full capacity’ even as new COVID-19 cases drop, public health warns

COVID-19 cases but they are concerned about the pressure on hospitals and a complicated outbreak among the homeless population.Dr. Mylène Drouin, director of the city’s public health department, said Friday that efforts made by Montrealers in recent weeks to curb the spread of the virus are starting to bear fruit.The region had about 46 infections per 100,000 people in December.

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Montreal public health ‘worried’ after city sets record by topping 600 new coronavirus cases

COVID-19 pandemic after reporting its highest daily tally of new cases with 648 on Thursday.Dr. Mylène Drouin, director of the city’s public health department, described the evolving health crisis as “worrying” amid an uptick in infections and hospitalizations.She says the positivity rate has risen to seven per cent and there is “sustained” community transmission of the novel coronavirus in Montreal.“In the last week, it is a significant increase,” she said, referring to the number of cases in the city.

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Quebec officials to provide coronavirus update as cases rise, restrictions tighten

COVID-19.Christian Dubé will be speaking in the provincial capital on Tuesday afternoon alongside Dr. Horacio Arruda, the director of Quebec public health.The number of novel coronavirus cases has continued to rise quickly in recent weeks, with a months-long high reached Monday when 586 new infections were reported.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]The health crisis has led to more than 68,000 cases and 5,800 deaths in the province to date.On Sunday, Quebec raised the alert level for several regions, including Montreal, to orange.

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Montrealers urged to respect health measures, answer contact tracing calls to stem COVID-19 tide

coronavirus alert level due to a recent surge in new cases.Mayor Valérie Plante said Monday that the situation needs to be “taken very seriously” by everyone in the coming days to stem the tide of COVID-19 in the city and the province.“It is up to us and all of us to do everything we can to limit the spread,” she said. “We can do it and we must do it.”The call for vigilance comes after the Quebec government placed the region in the “orange” level on Sunday, which includes stricter measures for the area such as limiting the number of people allowed for private gatherings at home and public events.

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Coronavirus: Quebec doctors urge re-think of province’s back-to-school plan in open letter

coronavirus pandemic.The letter, addressed to Premier François Legault and provincial Health Minister Christian Dubé, as well as the Quebec and Montreal public health directors, Dr. Horacio Arruda and Dr.

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Montreal public health urges participants in recent Latin dance events to get tested for COVID-19

coronavirus.Dr. Mylène Drouin, director of the city’s public health department, said in a statement Monday that three people with confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, attended dances in Montreal.Two people who tested positive for the virus went to a dance on Aug.

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Montreal to phase out mobile testing clinics as new coronavirus cases drop

coronavirus, the city’s director of public health said on Tuesday.Dr. Mylène Drouin told reporters the city is seeing a decrease in COVID-19 cases — especially in the last month — since the health crisis began.

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Coronavirus: Quebec Premier François Legault distributes masks outside Montreal Metro station

Quebec Premier François Legault was at the Cadillac Metro station Friday morning distributing reusable face coverings to those who need them.

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Coronavirus: Montreal officials to announce new measures to support merchants as they reopen

Montreal businesses closed since late March due to the coranavirus pandemic are getting set to reopen on Monday.

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Coronavirus contact tracing app ready for rollout, says Montreal AI institute

One of the world’s leading artificial intelligence research institutes is ready to offer governments across Canada a contact-tracing smartphone application for COVID-19 infections that it promises will protect users’ personal data and help predict future viral outbreaks.

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Montreal Public Health discusses community transmission, supporting elderly

Montreal Public Health officials Dr. Mylène Drouin and Dr. Paule Lebel held a press conference on Tuesday to address the current COVID-19 situation in the City.

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Coronavirus: Montreal to transform city buses into mobile testing clinics

Montreal’s public transit buses will be transformed into mobile testing clinics as the city works to clamp down on the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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Montreal North implementing new measures to stem spread of COVID-19

As Quebec talks about certain aspects of life returning to normal — with the gradual reopening of primary schools and certain sectors of the economy, as well as a loosening of certain travel restrictions between regions — things are far from normal in certain parts of Montreal.

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Coronavirus: Is Montreal ready to get back to business?

This week, Premier François Legualt focused on the return to school for Quebec elementary students and daycares, as well as reopening certain sectors of the economy including manufacturing, construction and retail.

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City of Montreal reports majority of long-term care homes have COVID-19 outbreaks

Montreal remains the epicentre of Quebec’s coronavirus outbreak, with 7,281 of the province’s 15, 857 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

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Coronavirus outbreak: Montreal reports 7,281 total cases, 332 deaths

Montreal head of public health Dr. Mylene Drouin said on Thursday that the province had 7,281 total cases, an increase of 451 new cases, and that the death toll had risen to 332.

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Coronavirus outbreak: Montreal launches website to map cases in city

Montreal public health director Mylène Drouin said on Friday that the city had a total of 2,837 cases and 29 deaths. She also announced the launch of a website in which people with symptoms could enter just the first three digits of their postal code and it would map the distribution of cases in the city.

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Coronavirus: Montreal launches website to help map COVID-19 in the city

Montreal has a new website, aplatir.ca, known as flatten.ca in English, designed to help the city map COVID-19 in the city.

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Coronavirus outbreak: Montreal has total of 2,090 COVID-19 cases as labs deal with testing backlog

Montreal’s regional director of health Dr. Mylène Drouin announced the new number of COVID-19 cases in the city on Wednesday: 2,090 confirmed cases in Montreal, with 132 in hospitals, 26 requiring intensive care and 14 deaths.

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Coronavirus: Jewish General Hospital to go into contingency mode as ICU reaches capacity

The Quebec government announced Friday 10 more deaths as a result of the novel coronavirus, bringing the total number of fatalities to 18.

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Coronavirus: Montreal has close to 50% of Quebec’s COVID-19 cases

Montreal public health officials have confirmed the first coronavirus-related death in the city.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0