The City of Montreal extended its state of emergency on Wednesday for another five days. The measure was first introduced on March 27, in order to better provide for the city’s homeless population amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The local state of emergency grants the agglomeration exceptional powers. It allows the city to quickly mobilize material and human resources that are required in the fight against COVID-19.
Montreal remains the epicentre of the outbreak in Quebec, with 4,775 of the province’s 10,000 confirmed cases of the illness.
There have been 74 fatalaties, 34 per cent of them occurring in government-run long-term care facilities known as CHSLD. The average age of the victims, according to Montreal’s regional public health