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MONTREAL (Reuters) - Canada’s Quebec province will impose a curfew starting on Saturday and extend an existing lockdown through Feb. 8, to curb the spread of the coronavirus, as it works to speed up a vaccination campaign to counter soaring cases of COVID-19.
FILE PHOTO: Pharmacy technician supervisor Tamara Booth Rumsey prepares a Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at The Michener Institute, in Toronto, Canada January 4, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio/File Photo
The new curfew will run from 8 pm to 5 am, even as non-essential businesses remain shut and home gatherings are prohibited as part of a “shock treatment” to save lives and the province’s health network, Premier François Legault said on Wednesday. Schools will remain open, he said.
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With the number of daily cases continuing to rise, the greater Montreal region could run out of designated COVID-19 hospital beds within three weeks, new Quebec projections warn.
Nearly two-thirds of the region’s hospital beds set aside for COVID-19 patients are now occupied. There’s a “more than 50 per cent risk” the city’s hospitals will exceed their dedicated capacity in coming weeks, the projections show.
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The Institut national d’excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS) released its latest projections on Thursday.
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MONTREAL “Let’s be clear: this is not the time for a vacation abroad.” That’s what the Prime Minister said last week as premiers Legault and Ford were increasingly insistent that such activity had to stop. Accustomed to travelling at this time of year, many Canadians seemed unwilling to pass up the opportunity to do so despite the pleas of certain politicians and public health officials. Hence Trudeau airport authorities were reporting full flights to typical vacation destinations in the United States, Cuba, Mexico and elsewhere. Some of these southbound travellers may have persuaded themselves and others that it made no difference whether they were inside or outside of Canada as they would follow the same safety measures.