Quebec’s two largest cities are being put under the highest alert level.

Provincial Health Minister Christian Dube says Montreal and Quebec City would move from the orange to red level.

Dube has urged residents to stop socializing for the next month in order to slow the spread. 

Quebec reported 750 new cases Monday; 245 of which were on the island of Montreal.

The Quebec City area, which had few cases during the first wave in the spring, had another 125 cases.

While deaths and hospitalizations remain much lower than they were back in the spring, experts warns those numbers will rise in the coming weeks putting pressure on Quebec’s health system.