Yellow alert: authorities worried

With Covid rising again in Montreal, Dr Mylène Drouin is emphasizing the yellow alert means people – especially young people – need to be more careful, and is promising more testing.

Bar owners, some of whom made expensive changes to meet earlier requirements, are unhappy about a new decree that they must close at midnight. JP Karwacki tots up a list of the bars and restaurants that have closed during the pandemic: no new shocks, as far as I can tell.

Halloween has not yet been cancelled. I hope people are already working on their coronavirus costumes.