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. “I ask the population to be more agile and come together with the safety measures to delay the Omicron variant replacing the Delta variant.
We are still in the Delta variant phase.”Health officials say there were 844 new COVID cases in Montreal, and they are expecting that figure to go higher within the next few days, with about 10,000 people in the city being tested daily.