The health situation is improving in Montreal. The metropolis is at the end of the fifth wave, according to public authorities. The peak would have been reached on January 10. About 1.2 million Montrealers were infected during this wave.
“We have been on a downward slope for five weeks,” said the DD Mylène Drouin, regional director of public health for Montreal, during a press briefing on Wednesday, along with Sonia Bélanger, president and CEO of the CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal. and president of the COVID-19 command center in the metropolis. The positivity rate is now 7%.
The doctor says she is “quite comfortable” with the reductions in announced health measures. However, it is necessary to keep “a certain caution”, she indicated on several occasions. “The virus is still circulating,” she said.
In Montreal, 86% of people aged 70 and over have now received their third dose of vaccine.
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