COVID-19 wave and is on the “right track” but the city is not out of the red zone yet, according to the the director of the public health department.Mylène Drouin told reporters Wednesday that the plan to aggressively screen and isolate emerging cases has paid off to keep variants of the virus as bay.
Yet, she also urged people to stay vigilant as restrictions ease and sectors reopen in the coming weeks.“The pandemic is not over,” she said. “We still have a bit of a way to go.”The seven-day rolling average shows that there are about 215 new infections reported each day.
Cases are dropping, but Drouin said testing is significantly low in the past few days — probably due to the long holiday weekend.As a result, she said the city is hovering.