COVID-19 in Quebec: What you need to know this weekend

• Quebec has 56,521confirmedcases of COVID-19 and5,627peoplehave died, an increase of 114 cases and sevendeaths from a day earlier. The total includes four deaths from before July 4.
• There are 306peoplein hospital (a decrease of seven), including 20in intensive care (a decrease of two). Here's aguide to the numbers.
• CBC Montreal is collecting stories from Quebecers who have recovered from COVID-19. If you would like to share your experience, pleaseget in touch.
• Having trouble keeping track of what has reopened?Consult our list.

Mercier, south of Montreal, is the latest city to make masks mandatory, after an outbreak in the community linked to two parties in theMontrgieand a bar on Montreal's South Shore.

As of Friday,Saint-Chrysostomemade it mandatory to wear masks inside businesses, and masks are also now mandatory in enclosed public spaces in Ormstown, also in theMontrgie.

More than 80 cases are linked to the parties, according to public health officials.

Officials in the region are expecting hundreds of people at a mobile COVID-19 test site Saturday.

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• Health officials in the Montrgie are scrambling to contain an outbreakcaused by large parties.
  
• Bars in Quebec now have to close by 1 a.m. and operate at no more than half capacity, following a flare-up of COVID-19 infections partially linked to an evening at abaronMontreal's South Shore.
  
• Masks will be mandatory on public transit across the province starting Monday, but it's still unclear how that will be enforced. On July 20, front-door boarding and ticket validation resumes on about 40 STM bus lines serving downtown Montreal.
  
• There are five seniors' care facilities in Canada where more than 40 per cent of residents died during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a CBC News investigation has found. Fourof these residencesare in the Montreal area.
  
• The mayor of Cte Saint-Luc says the suburb's mandatory mask bylaw has been a success. While Quebec says a provincewide announcement on masksis coming soon, two South Shore municipalities, Saint-Chrysostomeand Ormstown, have made wearing masks indoors mandatory as of Friday.
  
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