As the fall semester nears, and Quebec's government prepares to release its back-to-school plan, Quebec's teachers are calling for classes to be postponed to after Labour Day.
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As Quebec moved this week to allow gatherings of up to 250 people both indoors and outdoors, a Mohawk community south of Montreal isn't following suit.
Surveys from the end of May show that people who work in elementary schools and daycares are generally more worried about COVID-19 than the rest of the province.
One of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's lieutenants was in Laval last week as part of a tour of Quebec's regions aimed at taking the pulse of the province's situation amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
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.
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