Full support: Hundreds of Hong Kong people in Montreal gather messages of encouragement and support for Hong Kong's frontline heroes in the atypical pneumonia fight.

Hundreds of Hong Kong people in Montreal have launched a signature and well wishes campaign to gather messages of encouragement and gratitude for our frontline heroes fighting atypical pneumonia.

Welcoming the event, the Director of the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office (Canada) Rosanna Ure said: "We are truly grateful for their support and their concern for our medical and nursing staff. The Government is mobilising all resources to fight the disease.

"By strengthening preventive measures, stepping up checks at the airport and border control points, providing the best medical care and treatments and working very closely with the World Health Organisation and the international scientific community, we hope to be able to contain the spread of the disease."

The event will also be held next weekend (April 26 and 27) at the Dr Sun Yat-sen Park in Chinatown, Montreal.