Masking will no longer be mandatory on public transit in Quebec starting June 18

People with COVID-19 must wear a mask in public for five days after they finish a five-day isolation period, the Health Department said. Roommates of people who have COVID-19 symptoms or test positive for the disease must wear a mask for 10 days, the department added.

Quebec became the last province to lift its indoor mask mandate in most public places on May 14.

Meanwhile, Ontario’s chief medical officer on Wednesday said masks will no longer be required on public transit and in many health-care facilities in that province on June 11. Ontario will continue to require masking in long-term care centres and retirement homes.

Earlier Wednesday, a Quebec government health-care research institute said it expected the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the province to continue declining over the next two weeks. The Institut national d’excellence en santé et en services sociaux said in its weekly forecast the number of people in hospital — not counting those in intensive care — should drop to between 606 and 771 over that period.

The institute said it expected the number of people in intensive care to decline to around 15 over the same period.

The Health Department said Wednesday 1,012 people were in hospital with COVID-19, an increase of five from the day before, and that 25 people were in intensive care, a decline of one.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 8, 2022.

Jacob Serebrin, The Canadian Press

by The Canadian Press

Masking will no longer be mandatory on public transit in Quebec starting June 18

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