With Montreal now on orange alert, here is a breakdown of the COVID-19 cases per district

Published on September 25th, 2020 at 10:45 AM | Updated on September 25th, 2024 at 9:57 PM

A bit of bad news today as the province of Quebec has officially surpassed 70,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

Quebec health authorities reported 637 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, bringing the provincial total to 70,307.

In a press conference this afternoon, Quebec Public Health Director Horacio Arruda and Minister of Health and Public Safety Christian Dubé confirmed that the entire province is now at the orange COVID-19 alert level, and asked that Quebecers to avoid all social contacts for the next 28 days in hopes of slowing the spread of the virus before regions start going into the red zone (which would bring about another lockdown).

“We’re asking for you a month of effort to break the second wave,” Dubé said at a press conference.

Dubé also made it clear that the entire Greater Montreal is on orange alert and includes all 82 municipalities in the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal, an area that represents roughly half of Quebec’s population.

“If we do this, I think that it’ll encourage people to understand that, yes, it’s an additional effort that we’re asking you to do, but there’s an end to it," Dube said. "It’s for a month, it’s not permanent, we are asking you for one month of efforts to break this second wave."

Montreal North remains the area most impacted by COVID-19, followed by Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension and Cote-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grace.

As the number of new COVID-19 cases continues to rise, Santé Montreal has updated its website with a chart that breaks down all known COVID-19 cases per district.

Here’s what these cases look like spread out across the Montreal metropolitan area:

District/Borough | Confirmed cases as of September 24 at 12 pm

Visit the Santé Montreal website and click down the interactive map to see more info.