Though the provincial public health director, Dr. Horacio Arruda, promised in early May the government would begin collecting race-based health data, the Health Ministry acknowledged Wednesday there are no immediate plans to do so. The Montreal boroughs with large Black populations have been the hardest hit by COVID-19. Note that Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, Ville-Marie, and the Sud-Ouest borough, in central Montreal, have lower-than-average incomes but weren't affected by COVID-19 in the same way that eastern Montreal boroughs were. The tightly packed borough of Plateau-Mont-Royal and Ville-Marie, the downtown Montreal borough, had relatively few cases. MethodologyCBC News compared the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases by borough from the Montreal Public Health to census measures by borough from the city's statistics bureau .

Source: CBC News June 11, 2020 03:39 UTC