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With a third wave of the pandemic requiring a ratcheting up of Quebec’s public health restrictions anew, Premier François Legault still found time Tuesday for a low blow against one of his favourite punching bags.
After announcing that high school students in red zones like greater Montreal will go back to every-other-day in-person attendance, Legault denied that his rapid reversal indicated it was a bad idea to send secondary students back to full-time classes in the first place. In fact, he essentially accused the English Montreal School Board, and its anglophone counterparts who resisted the now moot decision, of thinking they know better than Quebec’s top public health experts.
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With a third wave of the pandemic requiring a ratcheting up of Quebec’s public health restrictions anew, Premier François Legault still found time Tuesday for a low blow against one of his favourite punching bags.
After announcing that high school students in red zones like greater Montreal will go back to every-other-day in-person attendance, Legault denied that his rapid reversal indicated it was a bad idea to send secondary students back to full-time classes in the first place. In fact, he essentially accused the English Montreal School Board, and its anglophone counterparts who resisted the now moot decision, of thinking they know better than Quebec’s top public health experts.
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Some other key statistics from Quebec’s latest COVID-19 update, published this morning:
Montreal Island: 299 cases, zero deaths.
29 more people are in hospital. Total hospitalizations: 543.
2 more people are in intensive care. Total in ICU: 123.
43,631 additional vaccine doses were administered, bringing the total to 1,636,310.
On Monday, Quebec conducted 34,499 tests. That’s the last day for which screening data is available.
The positivity rate is 4 per cent.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Quebec has reported 319,802 cases and 10,709 deaths linked to COVID-19. A total of 298,298 people who have contracted the disease have since recovered.
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