{"id":383778,"date":"2021-12-20T23:08:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T20:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/quebec-goes-into-lockdown-over-omicron-surge\/"},"modified":"2021-12-20T23:08:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T20:08:08","slug":"quebec-goes-into-lockdown-over-omicron-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/quebec-goes-into-lockdown-over-omicron-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"#Quebec goes into lockdown over Omicron surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Quebec goes into lockdown over Omicron surge<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Quebec officials announced Monday that they are taking the drastic step of throwing the province into a lockdown amid an explosion of Omicron cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation is critical. The explosion of cases is overwhelming,\u201d Health Minister Christian Dub\u00e9 said at a press briefing. \u201cOur health system is already in crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dub\u00e9 said\u00a0establishments such as bars, cinemas, concert venues, gyms and spas in the Canadian region will shut down starting at 5 p.m., <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/new-closures-covid-19-quebec-1.6292622\">CBC News reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Working from home is now mandatory for all non-essential employees, including government staffers.<\/p>\n<p>Restaurants, which are allowed to operate at half capacity, must close by 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, sporting events will not be allowed to have spectators, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Schools will also close early for the holidays, with students being let out Monday until Jan. 10, officials said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/coronavirus-canada-quebec-06.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Christian Dub\u00e9.\" class=\"wp-image-20557414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/coronavirus-canada-quebec-06.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/coronavirus-canada-quebec-06.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/coronavirus-canada-quebec-06.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>\u201cThe explosion of cases is overwhelming,\u201d Health Minister Christian Dub\u00e9 said.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Andrej Ivanov\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/coronavirus-canada-quebec-04.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Patrons order a drink in a pub.\" class=\"wp-image-20557428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/coronavirus-canada-quebec-04.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/coronavirus-canada-quebec-04.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/coronavirus-canada-quebec-04.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Establishments such as bars, cinemas, concert venues, gyms and spas in the Canadian region will shut down starting at 5 p.m.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Christinne Muschi\/REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear how long the new measures will be in place.<\/p>\n<p>The restrictions come as Quebec logged a record 4,571 new cases Monday, CBC <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> reported. 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The explosion of cases is overwhelming,\u201d Health Minister Christian Dub\u00e9 said at a press briefing. \u201cOur health system is already&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":383779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/coronavirus-canada-quebec-comp-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[122227,1545,120464,14090],"class_list":["post-383778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-20-21","tag-coronavirus","tag-omicron-variant","tag-quebec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}