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Three-quarters of Montreal CHSLDs, or long-term care centres, have COVID-19 outbreaks, while 23 per cent of private seniors’ homes have cases, regional public health director Mylène Drouin said Thursday.

“What concerns us greatly is that 75 per cent of our CHSLDs in Montreal, 59 out of 79, currently have outbreaks,” she said.

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The number of deaths from COVID-19 has doubled since Sunday, for a total of 332, with 90 confirmations of death in the last 24 hours alone, she said.

The island of Montreal now has 7,281 cases of the virus, an increase of 451 since Wednesday, Drouin said at a briefing on the pandemic with Mayor Valérie Plante.

However, Drouin said the sharp rise in deaths is partly due to the fact that the numbers have been updated to include deaths in nursing homes that had not been reported.

“These are corrections that have been made because several establishments, like CHSLDs or seniors’ residences, did not necessarily send us the death declarations, so we had to collect them,” she said.