Coronavirus: Public advised to wear masks in hard-hit Laval

The Minister for Health and Social Services, Lionel Carmant, reassured residents in Laval on Sunday that the COVID-19 crisis is under control there.

Carmant was in the third most populous city in Quebec and one of the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, after the city of Montreal.

According to the raw data published on Saturday by the National Institute of Public Health of Quebec, the cumulative number of confirmed cases amounts to 4,676 in Laval — behind Montreal (21,717) and Montérégie (5,325). The infection rate in Laval is 1,038 cases per 100,000 residents, which is even slightly higher than that of the Island of Montreal.

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There have also been 448 deaths in Laval since the start of the health crisis.

But according to Carmant, the outbreak is “controlled, despite the rate of cases and death”.


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