As of Sunday morning, cases of the novel coronavirus in Quebec are at 6,997, with 74 fatalities and 478 hospitalizations. Montreal’s cases keep climbing as their number reached 3,261 on Saturday, an increase of 424 since Friday.
Test results numbering 83,230 have so far come back negative, and 3,879 people are currently under investigation. Quebec Premier François Legault is expected to deliver an update on the novel coronavirus outbreak in the province on Sunday at 1 p.m.
The epicenter of the virus has seen a significant number of cases in Côte-Des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-De-Grâce with 323, LaSalle with 170 and Côte-Saint-Luc with 169 — the most affected areas on the Island according to Friday’s numbers.