coronavirus and variants.The province made the official announcement Thursday after the news began circulating Wednesday as the break for schools looms.Dr.
Horacio Arruda, director of Quebec public health, described the measure as “preventive” to protect students, teachers and the community in regions that have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.“There is a new thing in the equation of the disease in Quebec, which is the new variants, which are more transmissible,” he told reporters during a press conference in Montreal.