#Québec

Eight regions of Quebec are moved into the yellow warning territory, up from four. The next step -- orange -- would mean focused closures.Premier François Legault calls the situation critical,
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200 cases in a gym is an airborne superspreader event. No other mode of transmission explains it. People have said they never took their mask off and caught it anyway.
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On Google Maps looking at small Quebec towns. It's mind-blowing how every tiny village has a big, magnificent, glorious old Catholic church. And they'll all be gone soon if nothing
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1) Nearly three weeks into Quebec’s partial lockdown, the number of workplace #COVID19 outbreaks in Montreal grew to 68 on Tuesday from 65 a week earlier. In this thread, I
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Your kids can go without... Halloween, it's just candy. hockey, it's just a game. swimming lessons, they'll catch up. libraries, they have books. hanging out with friends, it's just socializing.
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Desperate long-term care homes struggle to find staff as #COVID19 sickens residents and sidelines workers, by @MoiraWelsh https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/04/09/desperate-long-term-care-homes-struggle-to-find-staff-as-covid-19-sickens-resident-a
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1) Quebec Premier François Legault elaborated on Thursday about his endorsement of two tweets suggesting that Ontario might be under-reporting its #COVID19 deaths. In this thread, I will fact-check this
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1) Since the start of the school year, the two demographics that have been observing the sharpest percentage increases in positive #COVID19 test results are elementary and high school students,
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I did a few interviews on what is happening in India right now. I cried during each & every one of them. This is one of them. Vaccine distribution
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1) On the eve of French-language schools reopening Thursday in Montreal, the city and province have been hit with several concerning developments, no doubt fueling the anxiety of many parents.
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1) In what could only be described as a late-afternoon “data dump"on Friday, the government released its latest projections for #COVID19 until August. To put it mildly, they conflict with
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1) On Sunday, the Canadian Red Cross opened a field hospital for the first time on Quebec soil — in of all places, a hockey arena in LaSalle — for
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With @legault hinting at re-opening schools, we r seeing a shift in Quebec toward the disastrous "herd immunity" approach of the UK government: warehoused senior populations & disregard 4 disabled,
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1) As the daily number of #COVID19 infections crossed the thousand-case threshold in Quebec on Friday — the highest since the peak of the first wave — it’s clear the
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1) On Monday afternoon, Montreal’s public health department confirmed at least 18 people in the city tested positive for the #coronavirus after they drank in 10 different bars. In this
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I can tell you what this is about. There are several reasons to invoke the Emergency Act federally currently looming.*Covid second wave is much worse than the first wave. The
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