Public health experts, teachers and students are all asking the Legault government to make wearing masks in classrooms mandatory as the second wave of Covid-19 accelerates across Quebec. Many are pointing to schools in Ontario, where the virus is about three times less widespread than in Quebec schools. In Quebec, mask use begins in grade five, and students are allowed to remove their masks in classrooms and in the schoolyard. "If wearing a mask is mandatory everywhere else, why is it not mandatory in classrooms? Legault is flanked by Horacio Arruda, Quebec director of National Public Health, left, and Quebec Health Minister Christian Dube.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot (Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press)A few moments later, the provincial public health director, Dr. Horacio Arruda, left the door open to eventually issuing that advice.

Source: CBC News September 30, 2020 20:26 UTC