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As COVID-19 continued its rampage through long-term care centres and seniors’ residences on Wednesday, Montreal’s chief public health officer announced the city is now peaking in the pandemic.

“Today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow we will be at the peak in terms of the number of cases,” Mylène Drouin explained. “This means that the number of people infected in the community is probably at its highest level now.

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“This also means we must absolutely maintain our measures of social distancing not only in the next few days, but until the end of April, as the government has asked of us,” she added. “This is good news, because after that period we can expect a decline in the epidemiological curve, with fewer and fewer cases each day.”

Still, the public health department released dramatically revised figures from those it made public earlier on Wednesday on its website, reporting 46 outbreaks in government-run nursing homes and 16 in seniors’ residences on the island of Montreal. Earlier in the day, the department disclosed a figure of 39, the same as Tuesday.