Lockdown measures ease Monday
Some lockdown measures in Montreal are lifting on Monday with indoor gatherings under 50 people now permitted, and restaurants and places of worship allowed to admit people, although with distancing. La Presse visited Portus, the posh rotating Portuguese resto, to follow what the owner and her staff are doing to reopen safely. Restaurant owners are facing uncertainty: will people come back, can a “distanced” dining room do well enough to keep the place open?
Here’s a more detailed version of the rules in place now.
Worldwide, the pandemic is getting worse, so we can’t throw off all caution. New Zealand, which declared itself Covid-free not long ago, recently faced a new outbreak and tightened its quarantine requirements – and its borders are a lot realer than ours.
DeWolf 10:04 on 2020-06-22 Permalink
Small clarification: New Zealand hasn’t had any new outbreaks. They’ve had travellers arriving in the country with an infection, but an outbreak implies community transmission. The case of the two British women who were allowed to leave quarantine early to visit a dying relative *could* have caused an outbreak, but luckily it didn’t. It just goes to show the challenge and importance of maintaining quarantine restrictions and keeping a close eye on every new case once you’ve eliminated community transmission.
qatzelok 13:43 on 2020-06-22 Permalink
That commercial media continues to present “cases” as the equivalent of “reasons to fear deeply” is very gas-light-ish. It reminds me of the the case that our media made for going to war with Iraq – twice in my lifetime. Turned out to be lies, but we only found out AFTER all those military contracts were signed.