The first person in Montreal to die of COVID-19 was a member of the city’s Hasidic Jewish community. Max Lieberman, with the Council of Hasidic Jews of Quebec, said Friday the 67-year-old victim started exhibiting flu-like symptoms Sunday, had difficulty breathing Tuesday night and died Wednesday after being put on a ventilator in hospital. “I know him as a healthy man,” Lieberman said in an interview. “He wasn’t an old 67, he was a young 67, a very nice, gentle guy.” Lieberman said the family had a private, graveside funeral service instead of the more typical large affair given rules forbidding gatherings amid the COVID-19 outbreak. “Normally there would be hundreds of people, but it was a very small funeral, ten or 12 people,” Lieberman