After a spike in COVID-19 cases in the past week, the City of Laval would likely be going back to a red zone if the province was still using its colour-coded alert system.
The rate of serious suicidal ideation went from 1 per cent to 4 per cent among Quebecers aged 65 and over from Sept. to Nov., which Perreault calls a significant figure. The rate is 5.8 per cent in the general population and almost 8 per cent in the City of Montreal. Since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, older people have been much more isolated, he said. They have much less human contact, some have been confined to their CHSLD rooms for long months, their physical health has deteriorated, they know they are at greater risk of dying from COVID-19, and while the youngest manage to keep some semblance of social life with the internet, not all older people have mastered new technologies.