Today the director of public health, Horacio Arruda, and the Minister of Health and Social Services, Chistian Dubé, speak to all Quebecers to remind them of the risks of a comeback of COVID-19 are very real if the distancing measures are neglected.
On Sunday, the Direction de la santé publique de la Montérégie launched an appeal to try to find customers of an establishment at the Dix30 shopping center in Brossard, where at least five people were contaminated with COVID-19.
Anyone who went to the Mile Public House at DIX-30 on June 30th is being asked to get a COVID-19 test
There are 74 new cases of COVID-19 a total of 55,937, as well as 3 additional deaths, bringing the toll to 5,577. 377 people are in the hospital and 25 patients are still in intensive care.
The non-compliance with the rules of hygiene and social distancing noted in recent weeks in public places, bars and restaurants in Quebec worries the health authorities, who fear a comeback of COVID-19, as it is the case in the United States.
Whether during an outing in a park, a day at the beach, at the swimming pool or during an evening in a restaurant-bar, the distance rule of two meters and the wearing of the mask are less less respected by Quebecers in recent weeks.
The Quebec public health authorities have of course noted this collective relaxation in favor of the return of good weather and entertainment establishments.
For experts, there is no doubt that the reopening of bars will have a significant impact in Quebec on the progression of COVID-19, despite encouraging figures and the drop in the number of deaths in recent weeks, COVID-19 continues to spread in the country and also in the United States, where 50,000 to 100,000 new cases are reported every day since the reopening of bars, restaurants and beaches in several states.
The opening of all bars and public pools and parks has justified everything that has happened in the United States, where the bars have already been open for several weeks. Some states have even been forced to close because there was an increased transmission of COVID-19.
The question remains should we close the bars again?
Considering the dramatic evolution of the pandemic in the US where the bars were reopened in a hurry, wouldn't it be wiser to order their closure immediately.
There are measures that are implemented in several places. There are several bars and resto-bars that close earlier, for example, to prevent people from drinking more and more and losing this awareness of distancing.