Quebec extends mask mandate as new COVID wave spreads in Canada

Quebec will require masks to be worn in indoor public spaces for all of April, delaying a plan to relax the measure by the middle of the month as it and other Canadian provinces face a new COVID-19 wave, a top public health official said on Tuesday. The province, the second most populous in Canada, will become one of the last parts of North America to continue a mask mandate in public indoor places like stores, with health officials projecting a rise in cases and hospitalizations. 'We do not expect the mask will be needed after the month of April,' Dr. Luc Boileau, the province's interim public health director, told reporters.