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A new wave of COVID-19 cases and rising hospitalizations ahead of an October election are creating fresh headaches for Quebec’s government, which says it has no plans to reintroduce mask mandates in the Canadian province despite calls by some doctors to do so.
Donald Vinh, a doctor with the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, called on Quebec to reinstate a mask mandate in indoor public places to prevent worsening illness and death.Article contentLike other Canadian provinces Quebec is in a seventh wave, with more than 7,000 health-care workers off the job due to the virus, according to government data. Quebec is scaling back summer service in six emergency rooms due to staffing shortages.
COVID vaccination would interfere with “the exercise of her faith and her relationship with the divine,” he said. The number of cases in Europe has tripled in the past six weeks, with almost 3 million infections reported last week, Kluge said in an emailed statement Tuesday.
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