Quebec, the Canadian province hit hardest by the coronavirus outbreak, on Tuesday said it would slowly reopen its economy in May while keeping some social restrictions to avoid possible flare-ups.
FILE PHOTO: Quebec Premier Francois Legault is pictured during a news conference after a meeting with Canada's provincial premiers in Toronto, Ontario, Canada December 2, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio
Data released on Tuesday showed the death toll across Canada had risen by more than 10% for the first time in nine days, climbing 11.1% to a total of 2,766. There have been 49,025 confirmed cases. Separately, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Ottawa and the provinces would soon release guidelines on returning to normal, stressing there had to be enough capacity to test and trace the coronavirus to control any new spread.
The epidemic is spreading more slowly, updated federal modeling showed, with the number of cases doubling every 16 days now compared with every 3 days early in the outbreak.The overall death toll by the end of the pandemic is seen at between 4,000 and 44,000. On April 9, the projected had been for between 11,000 and 22,000 deaths.
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