Quebec has, perhaps, found a solution to limit the spread of Covid-19, while ensuring its inhabitants a family time for Christmas. Indeed, the Prime Minister of this Canadian province offered a “moral contract” to Quebecers, Thursday, November 19. “What we are proposing is to allow family gatherings for four days,” François Legault, Premier of Quebec, said at a press conference. From December 24 to 27, gatherings of up to ten people will be permitted.
“In exchange”, he added, “what we are asking Quebecers is to try not to have any contact a week before Christmas, a week after Christmas” in order to avoid the spread of virus. “We ideally want to have a kind of confinement, a week before, a week after,” he added, ruling out any gathering for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
We offer you a moral contract for the holidays.
It is certain that there is a risk in seeing each other at Christmas. But the family is the basis of our life.
If we want to have the strength to make it to the end of this pandemic, we need the energy of our families. pic.twitter.com/NT5gtI8iVh
– François Legault (@francoislegault) November 19, 2020
François Legault also announced a new extension of restrictive measures in areas on “red alert”, including the regions of Montreal and Quebec. Bars, restaurants, cinemas, museums and libraries in particular will remain closed until January 11 in these areas. Since October 1, Quebecers have been called on not to receive guests at their homes.
Most affected Canadian province
They will have to continue to limit contact and travel between regions of the province is still not recommended. People with symptoms are called upon to isolate themselves, including during this time. The number of new daily patients in the province, around the hundred at the end of August, has continued to climb since. Quebec, which has more than eight million inhabitants, announced Thursday 1,207 new cases and 34 deaths.
In addition, primary schools will be closed as of December 17, with distance learning for a few days until the holidays. High school students will return to schools later, on January 11. Quebec is the Canadian province most affected by the epidemic with more than 128,000 cases and 6,700 deaths (for 315,000 cases and approximately 11,264 deaths at the federal level).
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