“We think we are more around 3%, maximum 5% in certain sub-sectors where it (COVID-19) has circulated more,” confirmed Dr. Horacio Arruda, Director of Public Health.

As Quebec Premier François Legault declared as early as May 11 the reopening of certain business sectors, elementary schools and daycare.

Researchers at l’Université de Montréal (UdeM) concluded that the positive cases of the COVID-19 virus in Quebec is 12 times more than what is being reported by the province’s health authorities.

The analysis published Friday using a statistical method to calculate what they claim is a more precise number of cases shows that in Quebec on April 22, infection numbers in Quebec were more like 256,130 cases.

“When we look at the serobiological studies that have been done elsewhere, we think we are more around 3%, maximum 5% in certain sub-sectors where it (COVID-19) has circulated more,” confirmed Dr. Horacio Arruda, Director of Public Health, Friday in a press conference.

The university group also found the actual cases in Ontario to be over 220,000 – 14 times more than what is being reported. Bringing the country’s central provinces number of infected people to just under half a million.