Hotel quarantine: ‘We will probably be able to free the lockers in September’

We will have to wait until September before easing health rules for returning travelers, even if some people have already received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

“Of course, when you take two doses, you are fairly well protected […]. The problem is that it is difficult to make exceptions,” emphasizes Dr^Return Cecile Tremblay, a microbiologist and infectious disease specialist at CHUM, in an interview with LCN.

Such a distinction would also require the use of proof of the vaccine and would bring its “share of complications if we were.” [mettait] To make exceptions, Dr. said^Return Tremblay.

raised d. It is easier for the government to impose standard procedures on everyone than to set different rules for multiple groups of people^Return Tremblay. It would also be wise to rely on the vaccination rate of the population to reduce security measures.

“At the end of August or September, if 80% of the population gets two doses, we can probably release them,” she said.

Vaccines and variants

While the vaccines appear to be effective against variants, experts don’t know if they will be effective in any new strains that may emerge.

“We know that places where community transmission is intense, in India or Japan for example, where they are facing another wave and in other countries of the world, it favors the emergence of new variants. Are we going to be protected against these variants? It is difficult for some,” the microbiologist explained. The thing is saying that.”