The Quebec government is extending the province's mask mandate until April 30.
The Quebec government is extending the province's mask mandate until the end of April in public places and on public transit.
"We don't really know how the [Omicron variant] BA.2 will play out and it's very clear that it is now predominating over BA.1," said Dr. Donald Vinh, an infectious diseases specialist at the McGill University Health Centre . "We know that BA.2 is much more contagious than BA.1. They're even hearing in other parts of the world that there are sort of hybrids between BA.1 and BA.2 forming, which are even a little bit more contagious.
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