However, the Montreal Gazette has obtained data from the public health department and educational system revealing that the city’s mostly poorly ventilated andand health-care institutions combined.
“The number of cases started to go up 14 days after the French-language schools opened and 14 days after the English ones opened in Montreal. Schools are certainly a driver. There are currently 96 COVID-19 clusters in Montreal schools, up from 93 on Friday. By comparison, there are 70 active outbreaks in the workplace and 25 in health-care institutions, according to the public health department.
“The schools are not acting like engines of outbreaks,” Jean Nicolas Aubé said. “In fact, schools are a reflection of community transmission. The cases in the school milieu are relatively stable, and in a majority of instances, the source of the transmission comes from parents.” On Thursday afternoon, Quebec’s chief public health officer, Dr. Horacio Arruda, attributed most outbreaks across the province to the workplace, but he did not allude specifically to the Montreal context.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
God bless Canada 🇨🇦
It was just a matter of time