Renewed calls for mask mandate in Quebec schools
The Montreal Children’s Hospital continues to operate well above capacity and the Omicron subvariant, BQ.1 continues to spread.“We still have lots of transmission occurring in the population,” Dr. Gaston De Serres, Epidemiologist at the INSPQ told Global News.Last week the government removed the mandatory five-day isolation period, a move that sparked a huge outcry by some epidemiologists.
Some people are now saying a return to the mask mandate in schools is needed to protect the population. “Some children have caught COVID four times since last January and they’re really sick,” Nancy Delagrave, of COVID-Stop told Global News.
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