Health Minister Christian Dubé has been pointing at his watch and urging Ottawa to give Quebec more vaccines to administer. He now has his wish, and it's up to the province's vaccination strategy to kick into high gear.
A temporary production drop by Pfizer is going to hit Quebec hard, along with the rest of the country, with nearly half the province s forecasted doses between now and Feb. 8 not arriving on schedule.
Quebec may space out doses of COVID-19 vaccines by as long as 90 days, the province said on Thursday, beyond the 42-day interval recommended by a national advisory council, as high case loads threaten to overwhelm its hospitals.
Legault calls for more vaccine doses as he puts Quebecers under month-long curfew By Kevin Dougherty. Published on Jan 6, 2021 7:47pm François Legault (Twitter photo from @francoislegault)
Announcing Wednesday that a curfew from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. will be imposed on Quebecers in a bid to reduce the spread of COVID-19, Premier François Legault responded to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s criticism that the provinces were delaying coronavirus vaccinations.
The prime minister has “no lessons to give the provinces,” Legault said.
“In the week we receive them, we give them,” he said. “We don’t have enough doses.”
Quebec thought it had learned from the 1st wave of COVID-19, so why is it facing another lockdown?
It appears Quebec, which recorded the highest number of deaths of any province in the spring, is about to become the first to enter a second large-scale lockdown. Measures expected to be announced by Premier François Legault on Wednesday could possibly include a curfew.
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