As Montreal continues to combat COVID-19 outbreaks, public fitness is focusing on the Parc-Extension neighborhood, where 15% of tests come back positive.
Between October 13 and 19, 74 new cases were reported there, raising the rate to 261 infections consisting of 100,000 people, the rate in the city.
Park-Extension, also known as Park Ex, has a giant immigrant population with giant families crammed into small living spaces and, despite its name, few parks or green spaces.
“It creates a scenario where, if it’s a virus, it can spread more easily than in a domain where other people have more dominance with each other,” said Christine Touchette, director of services at CIUSSS West-Central Montreal.
Touchette says the community has been on the public fitness radar since the first wave of the pandemic.
And so the fitness firm is running with other computers on the network and teaching other people about the virus.
Officials will also develop the tests, opening a transient testing clinic in Howard Park next Wednesday to be uploaded to CHLC’s local testing facility. Howard Park will be open from October 28 to November 7.
One of the demanding situations has been to succeed in a network where around 80 more languages and dialects are spoken.
With so many languages, encouraging the network to public fitness rules is harder, according to Jo-An Audrey Jette, executive director of the Parc-Extension Youth Organization (PEYO), a nonprofit that focuses on youth and their families.
She said the only genuine way to succeed in other people is to go door-to-door, rather than relying on posters or advertisements.
“You have to interact with them separately so you can answer their questions,” he said.
This is the first time Montreal public health officials have noticed particularly strong growth in cases in culturally diverse neighborhoods.
Montreal North, one of Montreal’s poorest neighborhoods, was hit hard this spring and continues to have a peak rate of new infections.
Information campaigns have been launched, going beyond posters and radio advertisements. There were other people on the floor who educated citizens about public fitness guidelines.
There was a similar spike in Outremont last month when the rate jumped to 183 infections consistent with a population of 100,000 between Sept. 15 and Sept. 21.
It is significantly higher than any other municipality at that time.
Currently, a total of 3,707 new ones have been reported in Montreal between October 6 and 19.
During this period, Park Ex is the most affected with 125 new cases, according to Montreal Public Health.
That’s 70 that between September 22 and October 5.
In terms of complete districts, Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce has the maximum number of new instances with 426, while Villeray—St-Michel—Parc-Extension has the current number of new instances with 350.
Quebec reported 905 new COVID-19 cases and 12 more deaths on Friday, 4 in the past 24 hours.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 98,226 confirmed cases in the province and another 6,106 deaths.
Based on a report by Elias Abboud of CBC
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