The COVID-19 crisis will last several more months. Our communities will have to face this danger, this epidemic, in the coming months. It's important to keep our people safe. We need to continue with messaging that promotes healthy habits, such as washing and other instructions.
We'll have to do a lot of tests and will need a large number of swabs in our communities. With more than 4,000 deaths, Quebec is the hot spot in Canada. The virus is circulating a lot in Quebec, and a number of people from our communities live in Quebec City and Montreal. There's always a danger that the virus will spread to our communities. Ten people in the Innu community contracted the virus and have all recovered. The road is starting to reopen. Quebec has started reopening, and there is a serious danger that the virus will spread to our communities. We must be able to test the people coming into our communities.
We did a calculation with Côte-Nord public health officials and microbiology experts. The Innu nation, which includes 20,000 people in nine communities, would need approximately 500 swabs a month, which would have to be supplied by the federal government. We're calling on the federal government to help us protect our people.
There's another important point. School will start back up in the fall. Most of the quarantine centres in our communities are in schools. If we want our children to have access to education, which is an important public health criterion, the federal government will have to help us find quarantine centres, perhaps by providing cots or temporary shelters. Our communities need space to set up quarantine areas for people who are infected.