COVID-19 and the Canadian healthcare system

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With uptick in COVID-19 cases, Quebec could be forced to choose between schools and bars

After having dropped almost steadily since mid-May, the five-day rolling average of new cases began to rise in late June. Quebec is now registering about 100 new cases per day.

While that's far from the peak of around 1,000 new cases per day the province saw two months ago, public health officials are nevertheless concerned.

At Monday's news conference in Montreal, Legault pointed out that unlike at the height of the first wave, the new cases are turning up almost entirely in the general population, as opposed to in long-term care homes.

The increase has coincided with the reopening of bars and nightclubs in the Montreal area. Health officials in the city have linked nine bars to about a dozen cases.