Posted: Apr 28, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 28
A nurse from Michael Garron Hospital prepares to administer a vaccine at a mobile vaccination site outside the Masjid Mosque in Toronto on April 9, 2021.(Chris Young/The Canadian Press)
Posted: Apr 28, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 28
A nurse from Michael Garron Hospital prepares to administer a vaccine at a mobile vaccination site outside the Masjid Mosque in Toronto on April 9, 2021.(Chris Young/The Canadian Press)
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Quebecers taking part in group activities outdoors will be required to wear masks in both red and orange zones as of Thursday, a measure the province’s health institute is calling preventive.
Unlike other places in Canada that have sounded the alarm on outdoor COVID-19 transmission, the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ) said on Wednesday that an increase has not yet been documented in Quebec.
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“It’s not worrying us more than it did before,” said Dr. Stéphane Perron, a medical specialist at the INSPQ. “We haven’t seen more outdoor transmission with the variants; that hasn’t been observed.”
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Quebecers taking part in group activities outdoors will be required to wear masks in both red and orange zones as of Thursday, a measure the province’s health institute is calling preventive.
Unlike other places in Canada that have sounded the alarm on outdoor COVID-19 transmission, the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ) said on Wednesday that an increase has not yet been documented in Quebec.
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“It’s not worrying us more than it did before,” said Dr. Stéphane Perron, a medical specialist at the INSPQ. “We haven’t seen more outdoor transmission with the variants; that hasn’t been observed.”
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Thirteen months into the pandemic, Quebec has found itself in the midst of a third wave and public health experts are wondering why the government isn’t doing more to stop the spread of the virus.
“I understand the desire from the government’s perspective to give people a little bit more freedom,” said Prativa Baral, an epidemiologist and a PhD student at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “But the thing is, the longer we wait, the longer we do these middle-ground restrictions, the longer this pandemic will last.”
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