Quebec's interim director of public health says vaccination efforts are expanding to men who expect to have sexual contact with other men in Montreal this summer.
Quebec's interim director of public health, Dr. Luc Boileau, right, listens while Dr. Mylène Drouin, Montreal's public health director, outlines the situation in the city.
"There are certainly cases we haven't seen because it is an insidious disease that doesn't show many symptoms," said Dr. Luc Boileau during a news conference Monday. "By enlarging the vaccination, we are trying to prevent the spread, knowing that we will have visitors, we will have different events, that will put people at risk," she said.
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