COVID-19 in Quebec: What you need to know Wednesday
CBC
Note: Quebec's Health Ministry does not publish the number of vaccine doses administered over the weekend.
The Quebec government has launched a project to get construction workers vaccinated in its latest push to curb outbreaks of COVID-19 at job sites.
Mobile vaccination units will be deployed to construction sites across Quebec to give workers the opportunity to get a shot on the job.
The group representing Quebec general contractors, the Corporation des entrepreneurs généraux du Québec (CEGQ), is partnering with the Health Ministry to make it happen.
The group doesn't know how many construction workers are unvaccinated, but the province says construction sites are linked to a high number of outbreaks — about 1,200 since the start of the pandemic. About 4,000 workers have been infected, according to CEGQ president Éric Côté.
"The average age of the workers is around 40, so we know that's the group of vaccinated people that's under the average," he said. "If you make [vaccines] available for them, they will show up, and they are showing up."
Health Minister Christian Dubé says paramedics will soon be given the power to provide urgent and primary care inside hospitals, long term care homes and clinics, as part of the ongoing effort to ease staffing shortages in the province's health care system.
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.