Mask Mandates Extended in Quebec and PEI

Luc Boileau, Quebec interim director of National Public Health holds a mask as he responds to reporters during a news conference on the COVID-19 pandemic, on Feb. 16, 2022 at the legislature in Quebec City. The Canadian Press/Jacques Boissinot

Quebec and Prince Edward Island are extending their provincial mask mandates as a result of the rapid spread of Omicron subvariant BA.2.

Mandatory masking in indoor public spaces will last until at least April 30 in Quebec, the province’s interim public health director Dr. Luc Boileau said in a press conference on April 5.

He said the decision comes just 10 days before the mandate’s original April 15 expiration date due to the surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations amid the province’s sixth wave.