"Society failed": Legault visits Montreal as Quebec becomes the world's seventh deadliest COVID-19 epicentre

MONTREAL — For the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Quebec Premier Francois Legault visited Montreal on Thursday, to announce the province recorded 131 new deaths linked to the virus — 91 of them in the hard-hit city.

The figures make the province of Quebec the seventh deadliest COVID-19 epicentre in the world, according to reports by LaPresse and CityNews.

Montreal — the epicentre of the COVID-19 contagion in Canada and Legault’s hometown — is still so “fragile,” the premier said, that he had little choice but to cancel the rest of the school year for elementary students in the area.

Legault took some responsibility for the repeated failures to bring the contagion in Montreal under control, especially within the city’s long-term care homes, where the majority of the province’s deaths have occurred. But it’s Quebecers as a whole, he said, who have let this happen to Montreal.

“I think the society failed,” he told reporters.

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