Quebecers urged to spend Easter weekend at home amid coronavirus pandemic

Quebec’s premier and public health officials are asking the public to maintain strict social-distancing measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 during the long weekend.

François Legault urged Quebecers on Thursday during his daily briefing to stay home over the Easter holiday.

“We must not go to visit our parents, our grandparents,” he said. “Follow my lead — I will not go see my mother on Sunday in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, but I will call her.”

Horacio Arruda, director of public health, also asked that people not hold any gatherings as part of festivities but optimistically added the province is beginning to “see the light at the end of the tunnel.”

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While Easter isn’t the same this year, Montreal’s Roman Catholic archdiocese has set up a phone line for those wishing to speak with a priest, operating daily in the afternoons in both official languages.

—With files from the Canadian Press

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