Shopping centres to reopen Friday
Public health’s Dr Mylène Drouin is happy to see Covid case numbers falling around town over the last couple of weeks, but with a scant third of Montrealers wearing a mask, there’s a risk of a resurgence like they’ve recently faced in Beijing.
Shopping centres in town are allowed to reopen on Friday except for food courts. This reopening may have been rushed a little because malls offer cooler spaces for people with no air conditioning during the heat wave.
The Journal notes summer programming at the Old Port – but surely they’re wrong about the clock tower beach when they write “… pour permettre aux visiteurs de se rafraîchir directement dans l’eau du fleuve.” Unless things have changed, that “beach” is simply a hangout place, without access to the river.
Update to the last item: It now reads “s’étendre sur une plage près du fleuve”!
Kevin 11:21 on 2020-06-18 Permalink
Beijing is testing tens of thousands of people because about 150 people came down with Covid over a week.
Quebec is not even close to being down to that level of infection, and it’s reopening malls and gyms with no screening measures.
DeWolf 12:14 on 2020-06-18 Permalink
Beijing is also part of a totalitarian surveillance state. I suggest we look at the experience of places that more closely mirrors our own.
Kevin 14:12 on 2020-06-18 Permalink
I believe Norway is down to 20 cases a week and maintaining strict limits on dine-in restaurants and in homes (everyone at least one metre apart)
Pools are now open, a month after going from allowing groups of 50 to be in the same space.
But they had far fewer cases and an order of magnitude fewer deaths.