Saskatchewan Initiates New COVID-19 Restrictions, While Quebec Announces More Lockdowns

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe speaks during a COVID-19 media update at the Legislative Building in Regina, Canada, on Dec. 9, 2020. Michael Bell/The Canadian Press

Saskatchewan announced that new restriction measures will take effect on Thursday. Quebec also plans to roll out more lockdown measures on Tuesday.

“We know that much of the community transmission continues to occur in our household settings, as a result this needs to be a different kinds of Christmas,”Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said during a press briefing on Monday. “It needs to be a quieter Christmas.”