Quebec’s public health institute on Thursday released fresh projections on the evolution of the novel coronavirus in the province but said it was still too difficult to determine the trajectory of the pandemic across the greater Montreal area — the epicentre of the virus in Canada.
Hospitalizations and deaths attributed to COVID-19 are going down in Montreal, said researcher Marc Brisson, adding that the city “is in the optimistic scenarios” that his institute projected in early May.
On May 8, Brisson’s team projected there could be more than 150 deaths per day in the city by July. Those death tolls have not materialized — and Montreal has recorded a drop in the number of new daily cases for the past week.