Coronavirus: What s happening in Canada and around the world on Jan. 11
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday Britain was in a race against time to roll out COVID-19 vaccines as deaths hit record highs and hospitals run out of oxygen. His top medical adviser said the pandemic s worst weeks were imminent.
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Posted: Jan 11, 2021 7:10 PM ET | Last Updated: January 12
First responder Caroline Cook and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson bump elbows at the new COVID-19 vaccination centre at Ashton Stadium in Bristol, where Cook received the vaccine on Monday.(Eddie Mulholland/Pool/Reuters)
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The Centrale des unions du Québec (CSQ), Quebec’s largest teachers’ union, called on Education Minister Jean-François Roberge Sunday not to rule out installing air purifiers in school classrooms.
Quebec’s public health department has said that it does not recommend installing the devices in classrooms to avoid spreading aerosols contaminated with COVID-19.
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However, CSQ president Sonia Éthier said she was not satisfied with the answers public health officials gave at a news conference on Friday.
MONTREAL School officials across Montreal were caught off guard on Friday by a new pronouncement from the province: it doesn’t think air purifiers work as a way to limit COVID-19 spread in classrooms. “We don’t recommend those filtration devices,” said Dr. Richard Massé of the provincial institute of public health during an announcement about the plan to reopen Quebec schools in person beginning next week. The institute just did a study that found that air purifiers don’t limit virus transmission which had some scientists and Montreal-area school boards scratching their heads, since there’s plenty of other research showing they do.
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