COVID-19 red alert to be applied to Montreal and Quebec City in coming days

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Quebec, Sep 28 (Canadian-Media): Christian Dubé, Quebec Health Minister, confirmed Sep 27 while speaking on Radio-Canada's popular Sunday night talk show 'Tout le monde en parle', that Montreal and Quebec City would move from orange to red alert, its highest alert level "in the coming days."

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Dubé did not provide any further on exactly what the red zone restrictions would look like.

"Montreal and Quebec City are the hardest-hit areas at the moment. They're very close to the red zone," he said. "We're going to announce in the coming days because I think we've arrived at that point. We're there and we have to act because people are expecting us to be transparent."

896 new cases of COVID-19 were reported Sep 17 by Quebec, the province’s highest single-day tally in months. To date, the province has recorded 71,901 cases and 5,825 deaths.

Government officials of Quebec had seen a recent rise in cases as a result of community transmission, and have been urging people to limit socializing and cancel private events in order to contain the rise of the virus.