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Quebec Health Minister says situation critical in 10 hospitals as COVID-19 patients top 1,000
With Quebec s COVID-19 situation spiraling, Health Minister Christian Dubé says people must follow health restrictions over the holidays or hospitals will be overrun in January.
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If a case is identified, the school is expected to notify students’ parents with health guidelines and instructions on whether the student in question should stay home.
Since the start of the school year, there have been 19,279 “reported cases,” according to the government 16,568 in public schools and 2,693 in the private school sector.
As a result, 1,638 classes have been cancelled across the province since September’s start date; ten Quebec schools have closed entirely.
Quebec public health says it has committed to providing weekly updates on school infections.
“We understand parents’ concerns, and we want to be there to reassure them,” said Health Minister Christian Dubé at the start of the school year. “We hope this tool will allow the population, and more particularly parents, to get a current portrait of the entire situation.”
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Although vaccines are making their way into arms across the country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged people not to get complacent over Christmas. It’s early days on the jab front, and a vaccine in a week or a month won’t help you “if you get COVID-19 today.”
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Canada’s national vaccination campaign to stop the spread of COVID-19 began with joy and relief on Monday, while challenges facing the mass inoculation plan rose to the surface as hundreds of Quebec nursing-home workers passed on the shot for now.
Gisèle Levesque, an 89-year-old resident of a Quebec City nursing home, did not flinch as she received her needle in the arm at 11:25 a.m. A short time later and about 250 kilometres to the southwest, Gloria Lallouz, 78, received her dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a nursing home on the west side of Montreal. Anita Quidangen, a Toronto personal support worker who has worked with seniors since 1988, received