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With the number of daily COVID-19 cases hovering around 2,000 and hospitalizations rising, experts say Quebec’s upcoming partial lockdown is better than nothing but fear it might be “too little, too late.”
Quebec reported 2,108 new cases Monday, the third consecutive day the number of new infections crossed the 2,000 threshold. The province also reported an additional 30 deaths and 38 more people in hospital with the disease.
As announced last week, Quebec will go into a “holiday pause” as of Dec. 25, with schools and non-essential businesses closing until Jan. 11.
But those who called for an earlier lockdown say the recent spike in cases indicates the government should have acted sooner — and implemented stricter measures.
“The time to act is not after you have hospitalizations, it’s as they are starting,” Dr. Donald Sheppard, chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in McGill’s Faculty of Medicine, said on Monday. “This is too little, too late.”
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