The Montreal General Hospital is experiencing an outbreak of the novel coronavirus. A total of six people in the internal medicine ward located on the hospital’s 15th floor have tested positive for the virus.

In a statement released Tuesday evening, the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), which operates the hospital, confirmed that two patients and four staff members on the floor have COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

The two patients who have tested positive have been placed into isolation, and the MUHC says it is currently tracing the close contacts of all six confirmed cases.

Already, “approximately 30” MUHC staff members have been placed into preventive quarantine, the statement says. Patients who could have

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