
COVID-19 in Quebec: What you need to know Wednesday
CBC
Note: Quebec's Health Ministry does not publish the number of vaccine doses administered over the weekend.
The province's deadline for mandatory vaccination for health-care workers is about two weeks away, and some 15,000 workers in Quebec are set to be suspended for not being adequately protected against COVID-19.
Health Minister Christian Dubé is encouraging health workers to get vaccinated now, saying he won't back down on suspensions without pay.
Dubé says he's asked all regional health officials to provide him with a plan by Oct. 1, but adds that it's too soon to talk about needing to reorganize services.
At a Tuesday news conference, Dubé explained the health-care workers that remain in the system will have to shoulder the workload of unvaccinated colleagues.
"This is a collective effort from everybody and I think that [...] the pressure is not coming from me, the pressure is coming from their colleagues. Their colleagues that will have to support those that are not vaccinated," he said.
About 7,000 of the unvaccinated health-care workers in the system are in direct contact with patients.

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