Quebec to resume provincewide night curfew starting on Dec. 31 in attempt to lower COVID cases

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Premier Francois Legault told reporters the curfew will run from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. for an indefinite period of time

He also announced that schools, junior colleges and universities won’t reopen to in-person classes until at least Jan. 17. Places of worship will have to close on Friday except to hold funerals, which will be limited to 25 people.

“We have to act rapidly — the situation is evolving rapidly,” Legault said. “As deciders, we have the responsibility to act; we can wait for all sorts of studies and more details, but it’s better to act and adjust a little later.” The province first imposed a curfew during the pandemic on Jan. 9, 2021, and only lifted the health order on May 28. Quebec is the only province in Canada to have imposed a curfew during the pandemic.Article content

Earlier Thursday, the research institute that reports to the government, Institut national d’excellence en sante et en services sociaux, said its modelling predicted “significant growth in new hospitalizations and the consequent occupancy of regular and intensive care beds over the next three weeks.”

It said its models indicated there could be between 1,600 and 2,100 COVID-19 patients outside intensive care over the next three weeks. The institute said the number of intensive care patients during that period could be between 300 and 375. The more pessimistic scenarios — 2,100 regular COVID-19 patients and 375 intensive care patients — would surpass anything recorded during the previous waves of the pandemic.

 

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Legault & Arruda (the clown) should start vaccinating peoples 24H/24H for 2 weeks....instead of testing...with lineup of peoples with blue mask protecting less than 20% ... Maybe we can avoid the worst this way..also do like Singapour did..

Welcome in Québec 🤣🤣🤣

Be home by 10 or else papa legault will give you a spanking, maybe if you keep up the good behavior all winter he'll let you stay out late in the summer when you get your 5th vaccine and download his app, you can go to the only restaurant in montreal that is still in business.🥳

but I thought the vaccines work?

When is it until? 2 weeks. 3 weeks? Or they decided simply not to tell us

Hitler would be very proud of these leaders!

To the rest of Canada, from a Quebecer: Yes we are racist Yes we are discriminatory And last but not least... Yes we are morons

Seeing the comments here, I say let the ignorant go out and infect themselves, let Darwin’s theory take place - we are where we are because of the unvaccinated and now they are the ones complaining about the additional restrictions, you can’t have it both ways! 🖕

Albert Einstein… the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result

So now Covid takes a break from 5am-10pm? Must be science.

Resist

Wondering when ANYONE will demand a return to parliamentary debate/vote/approval process that is supposed to be the FOUNDATION OF DEMOCRACY in this country. Narrowly elected dingbats across the land, dictating laws on Thursday that you can be arrested for on Friday. WTF!?!

The last Quebec curfew led to brutal increases in domestic violence. What will be different this time?

Legault is un gros failure. Tabarnak!

couchieMeowMeow Good luck with that one especially in Montreal. Haha

Polio Timeline for Cure 1800s in Europe 1894 discorved in USA 1950 Scientist find cure(using disabled children) 1955 Vaccine Suspended (Cutter Incident Shutdown) 1960 1st Licensed Cure in History 2000 maked 99% irradication of Polio We're in 1802 right now Better Buckle Up

Sorry what. They are implementing this on new years eve. What in the actual fuck is happening. Hahahahahahahahajjahahahahahah what an absolute joke. This May be worse than Nunavut locking down immediately on Christmas eve morning over 8 cases. Leadership has lost their gd minds.

Sit down Quebec, the sky is not falling and no dead bodies anywhere. Fear mongering BS that no one believes. Resist these curfews. Do not comply. Govt is 🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤡🤡🤡🤡⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️

Yes we could meet the people that we want to meet in the day , but not at night!! Mind blowing !! don’t know if am insane or there the ones!! Lol crazy

Oh the humanity....🤣 spreaders will ALL cry that they have been violated by a totalitarian dictatorship. 🤣

Ahh the communist government of PQ strikes again

This seems over the top. Yes things are bad, but if people vaccinated, little risk of ending up in hospital. We cannot keep doing this over and over. Pandemic is here to stay so we have to find better ways to manage it.

Is there any evidence that curfews are actually effective?

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