1) Montreal on Sunday reported its highest single-day increase of #COVID19 cases to date in the #pandemic, 786, exactly seven days after posting 748 infections. What’s more, a major outbreak has struck a Pointe-Claire private seniors’ residence. 
2) Le Cambridge logged 30 #COVID19 cases in the past 24 hours. A source said a stream of residents has been admitted to the overcrowded emergency room of the Lakeshore General Hospital. The Lakeshore’s ER was filled to 129% capacity on Sunday night.
3) But as bad as things are at Le Cambridge, they’re worse at a seniors’ residence in Laval. L’Angélus posted 31 #COVID19 cases in the past 24 hours, and 63% of the residents are infected. These are clearly signs the second wave is still intensifying.
4) There were 2,472 people across Quebec suffering from #COVID19 Sunday in long-term care centres and seniors’ residences, up by 139 since Saturday and the highest active total since the start of the second wave. This does not auger well for hospitalizations.
5) For the fourth day in a row, Quebec registered more than 1,000 #COVID19 hospitalizations amid a widespread and chronic nursing shortage. The number of patients in need of intensive care climbed by four to 146. Please see the chart below.
6) No Montreal hospital is being spared now during a second wave that has yet to peak. The Institut de cardiologie de Montréal has been hit with a #COVID19 cluster, with nine employees in quarantine and access to two wards prohibited.
7) Montreal’s seven-day average climbed to 29.81 #COVID19 cases per 100,000 residents, the highest to date in the #pandemic and the 10th straight day it has been above 25, the threshold recommended by Harvard University experts to impose a more stringent lockdown than Quebec’s.
8) Meanwhile at the neighborhood level, #COVID19 is definitely flaring up on the West Island, with the health district of Pierrefonds and Lac Saint-Louis recording the highest number of cases in the city Sunday: 106. But the coronavirus is surging nearly everywhere in Montreal.
9) In an announcement reminiscent of the first wave, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau informed Canadians Sunday night all flights from the UK will be banned from entering the country for the next 72 hours amid concerns of a new #coronavirus strain that may be 70% more contagious.
10) And Ontario is on the verge of declaring its own province-wide lockdown beginning on Christmas Eve. The Ontario lockdown will last 28 days, seven longer than Quebec’s. End of thread. Please, everyone, stay safe and limit your social contacts.
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