Coronavirus live updates: Use of tobacco, alcohol, cannabis soars in Montreal amid pandemic, survey shows - Montreal Gazette

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That’s an “uncomfortable” level, which is why Montreal is still on red alert, Drouin told a press conference.

Côte-St-Luc, Snowdon, Côte-des-Neiges and Park Extension remain hot zones, to which other regions were recently added, including LaSalle, Lachine and Rivière-des-Prairies, she said.

The positivity rate is stable at 5 per cent across the island, but in some of the hard-hit areas the rate is above 10 per cent, she said.

Montreal currently has 247 active outbreaks; about 60 per cent of them have fewer than five cases.

The outbreaks include 112 in schools, 53 in workplaces, 36 in daycares and 34 in the health care system.

Drouin said surveys found increases in the use of alcohol, cannabis and tobacco in the first 10 weeks of the pandemic:

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