COVID-19 in Quebec: What you need to know Monday
CBC
Vaccination rates for children age 5 to 11 can be wildly different depending on where you live on the island of Montreal, according to Montreal public health.
Overall, only about 45 per cent of children between the ages of five and 11 in Montreal have received a first dose.
Some areas have very high vaccination rates for the group, such as Montreal-West, where 73.6 per cent of children in the age group have received one dose.
However, that isn't the case across the city. Only about 21.2 per cent of children aged five to 11 in Saint-Léonard have had a first dose as of Dec. 20.
Dr. Olivier Drouin, a pediatrician with the St-Justine Hospital, said there were many reasons for the discrepancy, including the fact that many parents still have questions about vaccination.
Drouin said the province should be doing more to encourage vaccination, including bringing vaccination centres to common neighbourhood areas, like parks and community centres.
Quebec plans to grant an exemption for walking dogs past curfew, after concerned pet owners drew attention to the discrepancy between this year's curfew and the previous one.
In the decree specifying the terms of the curfew, leaving one's house between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. to walk a dog is not a valid reason for breaking curfew, Health Minister Christian Dubé confirmed to La Presse Canadienne.
Marie-Hélène Émond, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, said the government intends to include the "missing exception again as soon as possible."
Last year, the curfew had a provision for residents to walk their dogs within a one-kilometre radius of their home.
The Quebec City region's hospital network announced Sunday that it will be postponing about 56 per cent of surgeries so it can free up 60 more nurses to treat COVID patients.
It is also delaying other non-urgent procedures and converting several medical appointments into phone consultations.
The head of the hospital network, Martin Beaumont, said it was already operating with about 600 less health workers than it needed, and now has about that number in isolation due to the virus.
He asked people to be patient and compassionate with the network's exhausted staff.
P.E.I.'s Public Schools Branch is looking for 50 substitute bus drivers, and it'll be recruiting at three job fairs on Saturday, June 8. The job fairs are located at the Atlantic Superstore in Montague, Royalty Crossing in Charlottetown, and the bus parking lot of Three Oaks Senior High in Summerside. All three run from 9 a.m. until noon. Dave Gillis, the director of transportation and risk management for the Public Schools Branch, said the number of substitute drivers they're hiring isn't unusual. "We are always looking for more. Our drivers tend to have an older demographic," he said.