The province of Quebec, the second most populous in Canada and the one with the most cases of the omicron variant in the country, recorded a 300% increase in demand for vaccines against Covid-19 after determining that only those immunized will be able to buy alcoholic beverages or marihuana.
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The restriction was announced by the local Health Minister, Christian Dubé, last week and will only go into effect next Tuesday (18). But, according to him, the number of daily appointments to receive the first dose of the immunizer has already jumped from 1,500 to 6,000.
Dubé said the bar to accessing alcohol and marijuana — legalized for recreational use in Canada in 2018 — is not intended to anger the unvaccinated, as President Emmanuel Macron declared last week about the vaccine passport project in France.
According to the minister, “it would be good” to bother those who refuse to receive the vaccine, but his objective is to reduce their contact with the portion of the population that is immunized, protect the health system and protect the unvaccinated from each other. “This is a first step that we are taking. If the unvaccinated are not satisfied, there is a very simple solution: they will take their first dose, it is easy and free”, said Dubé. “If you don’t want to get vaccinated, don’t leave the house.”
According to government data, 84.9% of the population of Québec has already had at least the first dose of the vaccine. Although the unvaccinated represent less than a fifth of the 8.5 million inhabitants, they are half of the patients in intensive care, according to Dubé.
In another unusual measure, the governor of the province, François Legault, announced his intention to implement a “sanitary tax” on unvaccinated people in Québec.
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The province of Quebec, the second most populous in Canada and the one with the most cases of the omicron variant in the country, recorded a 300% increase in demand for vaccines against Covid-19 after determining that only those immunized will be able to buy alcoholic beverages or marihuana.
read more:
The restriction was announced by the local Health Minister, Christian Dubé, last week and will only go into effect next Tuesday (18). But, according to him, the number of daily appointments to receive the first dose of the immunizer has already jumped from 1,500 to 6,000.
Dubé said the bar to accessing alcohol and marijuana — legalized for recreational use in Canada in 2018 — is not intended to anger the unvaccinated, as President Emmanuel Macron declared last week about the vaccine passport project in France.
According to the minister, “it would be good” to bother those who refuse to receive the vaccine, but his objective is to reduce their contact with the portion of the population that is immunized, protect the health system and protect the unvaccinated from each other. “This is a first step that we are taking. If the unvaccinated are not satisfied, there is a very simple solution: they will take their first dose, it is easy and free”, said Dubé. “If you don’t want to get vaccinated, don’t leave the house.”
According to government data, 84.9% of the population of Québec has already had at least the first dose of the vaccine. Although the unvaccinated represent less than a fifth of the 8.5 million inhabitants, they are half of the patients in intensive care, according to Dubé.
In another unusual measure, the governor of the province, François Legault, announced his intention to implement a “sanitary tax” on unvaccinated people in Québec.
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