Legault defends Quebec’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout despite reports of empty Montreal-area clinics Morgan Lowrie Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account
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There is no need to change Quebec’s COVID-19 vaccine strategy despite reports of empty walk-in vaccine clinics in the Montreal area, Premier Francois Legault said Thursday.
Legault told reporters in Quebec City he’s happy with the vaccine rollout, including at walk-in clinics offering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to those aged 55 to 79.
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Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé announced on Tuesday that vaccination for a pre-established set of essential workers, including all school staff, and people with chronic illnesses will be available throughout Quebec as of April 14, and that everyone in these two categories who wish to be vaccinated should be able to do so by the end of the month of May.
The information came as a footnote in the provincial government’s afternoon update, which Premier Francois Legault kept primarily focused on concerns about increases in hospitalizations in the coming weeks.
MONTREAL Protests were held in Montreal and Quebec City in violation of curfew on Tuesday night but were quickly dispersed. It was the third night in a row that protests were held. A small group of people gathered in downtown Montreal shortly before curfew was to begin at 8 p.m. but a was met with a large police presence and quickly broke up. Police said no arrests were made and no tickets given out. In Quebec City, a small gathering of around 20 people turned up outside Public Security Minister Genevieve Guilbault s office. At the onset of curfew at 8 p.m., police moved in the crowd was dispersed by 8:45 p.m.
Premier Francois Legault s approach to addressing the COVID-19 pandemic is once again under fire by his political rivals, this time for “forgetting” to explain some public health measures during his press conferences.