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Quebec works to contain jail outbreak as overall COVID-19 trends deemed ‘encouraging’
COVID-19 testing operation was underway at a jail north of Montreal on Sunday following an outbreak that has infected more than 60 people.A spokeswoman for the regional health board for the Laurentians said that, as of Saturday, 45 inmates and 17 workers had tested positive at the St-Jérôme detention centre.Melanie Laroche said inmates in certain blocks of the provincially run facility were tested in the middle of last week, but officials decided on Friday to expand screening to the entire jail.She said testing of all the inmates wrapped up on Saturday, while employee testing is expected to be complete by Monday.“We are also continuing our investigation and our support in the implementation of health measures,” she wrote in an email.The