Quebec's health minister says young adults key to avoiding COVID-19 vaccine passport - Yahoo News Canada

MONTREAL — Quebec's health minister told young people Friday their decisions to get vaccinated will make the difference as to whether the government will impose a "vaccine passport" should cases rise in the fall.

The percentage of Quebecers vaccinated with two doses rises by one percentage point each day, Christian Dubé said on Twitter.

The government's target is to have 75 per cent of every age bracket fully vaccinated by the end of August.

"Young people must make a difference if we want to avoid using the vaccination passport," Dubé tweeted.

Quebec's government says it will impose a vaccine-passport system beginning in September that would require people to prove they are vaccinated to access non-essential businesses, such as bars and gyms, in parts of the province where COVID-19 transmission is high.

Meanwhile, health officials in the province reported 101 new COVID-19 cases Friday and one more death attributed to the novel coronavirus.

Quebec has 752 active reported cases of COVID-19.

The province's public health institute says 83 per cent of Quebecers over 12 have received at least one dose and 59.8 are considered fully vaccinated.

The Health Department said 94,624 doses of COVID-19 vaccine were administered Thursday, the vast majority of those second doses.

Quebec has reported a total of 376,530 confirmed infections and 11,239 deaths linked to the virus.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Vaccinated individuals accounted for three-quarters of Singapore's COVID-19 infections in the last four weeks, but they were not falling seriously ill, government data showed, as a rapid ramp-up in inoculations leaves fewer people unvaccinated.

Of Singapore's 1,096 locally transmitted infections in the last 28 days, 484, or about 44%, were in fully vaccinated people, while 30% were partially vaccinated and just over 25% were unvaccinated, Thursday's data showed.

Recent developments: Ottawa reports seven more COVID-19 cases Friday and no new deaths.

Ottawa Public Health (OPH) reported seven new cases, and no new deaths on Friday.

A federal attempt to shield documents related to the firing of two scientists is a violation of parliamentary privilege and must be tossed out of court, House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota says.

In a notice of motion filed Thursday in Federal Court, Rota says the House — by virtue of its parliamentary privileges — has the power to send for the "persons, papers and records" it deems necessary to its functions.

The investigation started in May when a woman told police she had been violently assaulted by a man with whom she had had a relationship, the Calgary Police Service (CPS) said in a release Friday.

Myanmar has appointed a new temporary head of its embassy in London, Britain's foreign ministry said on Friday, replacing the previous ambassador who was ousted after breaking ranks with the military government over its Feb.

"Canada is here to support those who supported us," said Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino, adding that "several thousand" people would be eligible and the first arrivals would be landing in Canada very shortly.

She says she was ecstatic Monday when she heard Canada would reopen its borders in less than three weeks and that her son could make the trip to Canada