Canada's Quebec sees coronavirus cases soar, faces equipment shortage


  • World
  • Wednesday, 01 Apr 2020

FILE PHOTO: A person driving a car with a New York licence plate talks to security inside the Tosh Jewish community of Boisbriand as private security and police maintain quarantine orders due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19), near Montreal, Quebec, Canada March 30, 2020. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi

MONTREAL (Reuters) - With more than half of Canada's coronavirus cases, Quebec has become the country's epicentre for the pandemic and could run out of some equipment in a week after missing an early opportunity to control the outbreak.

The spring school break, a popular travel week, took place in the first week of March in Quebec, earlier than many other Canadian provinces. But Quebec did not have broad social restrictions in place and thousands of returning travellers went back to schools and work.

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