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After violent anti-curfew rally, Montreal doctor says people must make ‘some degree of sacrifices’
Labos says it’s “very hard to prove” that curfew — which has only been implemented in Quebec — does make a difference in fighting the pandemic since it’s usually in conjunction with other measures, such as closing gyms and businesses.But he stressed that curfew seeks to limit social gatherings and signals to the population that the health crisis is worse.“We have to make some degree of sacrifices because the alternative is to look at what’s happening in Ontario, where the hospital system is becoming stretched and they starting to run out of hospital beds,” Labos said.Variants of COVID-19 are more transmissible and hitting young Quebecers hard, he added.“They are now getting more sick and landing in hospital,” he said.The first and second