COVID-19: Case numbers soar in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean

QUEBEC — Health officials in the Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean region are deploying hundreds of contact tracers to try to stop the rampant spread of the virus there.Dr. Donald Aubin, the regional public health director, told the Montreal Gazette on Monday that the number of COVID-19 cases is “far too high” for a region with such a small population.“The number of active cases needs to go down,” he said.Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean, an administrative region nearly 1