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While vaccination and improved treatment have made COVID-19 less deadly, Quebec reported Saturday that there have been15,000 deaths attributed to the pandemic in the province -- the most in Canada. Quebec's death rate also remains the highest in the country, at 174 deaths per 100,000 people. In Ontario, there have been 86 deaths per 100,000 people. Across Canada, there have been 102.
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Though the province maintains the situation is stable, school absences keep climbing.
“Right now ... there are concerns the health network can't handle the increase in cases that’s forecasted. So how will the network handle the level of transmission we know we'll see the moment schools reopen?”
Article content Education Minister Jean-François Roberge announced in June that there won’t be masks or class bubbles in schools in the 2021-2022 academic year as COVID-19 cases across the province have fallen while vaccinations ramped up. Universities will also return to in-person learning and mask-wearing will not be mandatory. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Analysis: Perhaps it's time for Quebec to reimpose a mask mandate in classrooms Back to video In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had taken a simila...