{"id":14192,"date":"2020-05-09T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/?p=14192"},"modified":"2020-05-18T01:00:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T05:00:17","slug":"loosening-restrictions-could-mean-huge-increase-in-montreal-covid-19-deaths-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/loosening-restrictions-could-mean-huge-increase-in-montreal-covid-19-deaths-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Loosening restrictions could mean huge increase in Montreal COVID-19 deaths: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>MONTREAL &#8212;<br \/>\n\tQuebec&#8217;s public health institute says deaths could spike in the greater Montreal area if physical distancing measures designed to limit the spread of COVID-19 are lifted.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNew projections posted to the institute&#8217;s website show deaths could rise to 150 a day by July in the city and its surrounding regions, now the epicentre of the virus in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe institute, which worked with experts from Laval University, says new cases could soar to 10,000 a day by June amid a potential surge in hospitalizations.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&#8220;A small increase in social contact could lead to a rapid increase in cases, hospitalizations and deaths,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMontreal has recorded 18,435 cases of COVID-19 and 1,727 deaths, making it by far the hardest-hit part of the country. On top of viral outbreaks in long-term care homes, several other parts of the greater Montreal area are witnessing sustained community transmission.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPremier Francois Legault said this week that elementary schools, daycares and retail stores with outdoor entrances in Montreal can reopen on May 25, pushing back the date for a second time.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe institute&#8217;s model shows that lifting lockdown measures in the rest of Quebec would likely result in a slight increase in cases outside of Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe projection does not include long-term care homes and incorporates a breadth of projections that are &#8220;tough to determine,&#8221; the institute said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Optimism v. pessimism in the COVID-19 curve\" src=\"http:\/\/montreal.ctvnews.ca\/polopoly_fs\/1.4932202!\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/landscape_620\/image.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Quebec government has started to ramp up testing, carrying out 12,194 since Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe latest data from the provincial government reveals 836 new cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Quebecers infected to 36,986.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe province recorded 61 new deaths, bringing the toll to 2,786.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 9, 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.ctvnews.ca\/projections-show-covid-19-deaths-could-soar-if-confinement-lifted-in-montreal-1.4932199\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &#8212; Quebec&#8217;s public health institute says deaths could spike in the greater Montreal area if physical distancing measures designed to limit the spread of COVID-19 are lifted. New projections posted to the institute&#8217;s website show deaths could rise to 150 a day by July in the city and its surrounding regions, now the epicentre&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[120,162,161,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15440,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14192\/revisions\/15440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}