In a press conference thursday afternoon, the senior strategic medical advisor of the Direction générale de la santé publique of the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux (MSSS), Dr. Marie-France Raynault, explained the province’s current approach to the COVID-19 pandemic. Raynault cited INSPQ polls which she says showed that Quebecers have "very varied understandings" of what it means to be living with COVID-19.
You ll soon be able to get back to your regularly scheduled Sunday shopping routine. At a press conference on Thursday, Premier François Legault announced that Quebec stores can open on Sundays again starting January 23.
At a press conference on Thursday, Quebec Premier François Legault outlined the next steps his government would take for the "health contribution" tax on unvaccinated people and clarified his own position on the issue."The intention isn t to hurt people who are going through a hard time," explained the premier. "I m talking about the homeless, people who have illnesses that exempt them from being vaccinated, even people who have certain mental health issues [.] what we envision is to say to people who choose not to get vaccinated that there s a price to pay."News of Quebec s intention to levy a "significant" tax on the roughly 10% of people who are still unvaccinated was met with much criticism.
The Ministry of Health and Social Services announced Tuesday that Quebec PCR tests will no longer be available to the general public at testing sites. Due to high demand and a surge in new COVID-19 cases due to the Omicron variant, the province is limiting PCR tests to a few priority groups.