MONTREAL --
A Quebec City neighbourhood institution is closing, seven months after it helped start a COVID-19 chain effect across the region that left its own clients ill, with one dead.
"After 25 years in the bar industry, the time has now come to turn the page," wrote the owners of Bar Kirouac, the karaoke bar in the Saint-Sauveur quarter of Quebec City.
The bar made headlines across the province last August when its popular karaoke nights, attended by a loyal fan base of older patrons, led to a major COVID-19 outbreak that spread to schools and helped spark weeks of elevated virus numbers in Quebec City.