The decision to allow public gatherings of up to 250 people comes with a relatively low risk of COVID-19 transmission compared to other riskier social activities, Quebec's public health director said Monday.
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Quebec Health Minister Christian Dube is encouraging everyone -- recent travellers and otherwise -- to get screened for COVID-19 if they think may have come into contact with the virus.
There are now 5,683 people who have died of COVID-19 in Quebec, health authorities announced Monday, as confirmed cases in the province reached 59,722.
The anti-mask movement is not unique to Quebec, nor are masks the only source of conflict in the country when it comes to public health directives around the novel coronavirus. But the issue is one of several at the heart of a growing online movement of disinformation around the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.
Doctors are expressing concern over the next phase of Quebec's re-opening, as groups of up to 250 people will be allowed go gather indoors as of Monday.
The grey, rainy weather that hit much of southern Quebec on Sunday led to a highly appreciated influx of people to the province's movie theatres, a development welcomed by owners.
Quebec public health officials announced Sunday that a total of 59,599 people have tested positive for COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic and 5,681 have died due to the novel coronavirus.
A recent Association for Canadian Studies (ACS) survey found that Canadians (and particularly French-speaking Quebecers) are more comfortable sending their kids back to school next month than their American counterparts. Both approved of mandatory masks in schools.
The Pavillon Camille-Lefebvre long-term care home in southwest Montreal houses some of the patients most vulnerable to succumbing to a pandemic, including 18 who live on ventilators full time, but as COVID-19 swept through Montreal's nursing homes like a seemingly unstoppable force, the home achieved a rare feat: not a single positive case, much less any COVID-19 deaths.
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Experts say that catching the virus by touching an infected surface and then touching your face is 'not impossible,' but not as big a risk as studies on the lifespan of the virus may have suggested.
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