Quebec to end mask requirement May 14, citing ‘better and better’ COVID-19 trend – CTV News

“All the indicators are down, be it the number of cases, the number of health-care employees who are positive , the number of hospitalizations,” interim public health director Dr.

“For sure, the virus will circulate more,” she said in an interview Wednesday.

Quebec will be the last province in Canada to lift its masking requirement.

“We are not expecting to reintroduce any obligations for the wearing of the mask, or any other measures, but we do not know what’s going to happen,” he said.

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That translates to 6,400 more deaths than would normally have been expected during that period, well below the more than 15,000 COVID-19 deaths that the province has reported.

Boileau, however, said the 6,400 figure almost surely under-represents the true COVID-19 death toll.

Shana Olie says she never thought she’d be stuck in Canada, unable to see her gravely ill father in the U.K.

— not because of the pandemic, but due to administrative delays at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

Experts say Canada needs to develop a robust system to detect COVID-19 activity in the absence of wide-scale PCR testing.

Clashes have broken out at a major site in Jerusalem sacred to Jews and Muslims and rockets have been fired from Gaza.

Canadian officials, including Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, joined allies in staging a walkout of a G20 meeting in Washington, D.C.

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