Coronavirus: What happening in Canada and around the world on Sunday
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Dozens of people marched in downtown Montreal late Saturday in defiance of the province's latest pandemic-related curfew.
Police made one arrest and handed out 57 tickets for violations of the 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. ET curfew, which was in its second night of enforcement. No injuries were reported.
People gathered on Sherbrooke Street just before 10 p.m. local time. Police drove along the street and used loud speakers to order those in the crowd to leave. At one point, other officers in riot gear stood in a line across from the demonstrators.
Fines for breaking the new curfew range from $1,000 to $6,000, the provincial government announced Thursday
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has condemned Quebec's latest restrictions — including the only curfew ordered in Canada in response to rising cases of COVID-19. It's the second curfew Quebec has imposed since the pandemic began; a previous one, announced in early January 2021, was in place for nearly five months.
The civil rights advocacy group said the Quebec government has presented no evidence that curfews work to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Premier François Legault has not set an end date for the curfew, but said Thursday it would be the first restriction to be removed once the situation has improved.
Meanwhile, the Montreal Canadiens announced on Saturday they are suspending operations until Jan. 6 as a preventative measure after two more players were added to the NHL's COVID-19 protocol list. Players on the list include those who are inactive because they either have the virus or could have been exposed to it.
With testing capacity strained, experts say true case counts are likely far higher than reported. Hospitalization data at the regional level is also evolving, with several provinces saying they will begin to report more precise data that separates the number of people in hospital because of COVID-19 from those in hospital for another medical issue who also happen to test positive for COVID-19.
At least three provinces and one territory set new highs in COVID-19 daily cases on Saturday as the highly transmissible Omicron variant continued to drive up infections across the country.
Ontario reported 18,445 cases — an increase from 16,713 new cases reported New Year's Eve. The provincial public health department said 12 more people have died due to the virus and 85 more people were in hospital.
Records were also set on Saturday in Nunavut, which reported 50 new cases, and Newfoundland and Labrador, which logged 442 new infections.
In Newfoundland and Labrador, Health Minister John Haggie said he had tested positive for COVID-19 and was isolating with cold-like symptoms.
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