Quebec looking at decreasing Astrazeneca cut-off age
Following similar decisions made by the provinces of Ontario, Alberta, and Manitoba Quebec’s director of public health, Horacio Arruda, told reporters that the age limit for the Astrazeneca vaccine would be dropping to a new level on Monday. As of this writing, specifics about the new age limit had not been made public, although in the three other provinces the limit dropped from 55 to 40.
Quebec also began enforcing a border closure with Ontario on Monday as an added measure to help control the spread of the virus across provincial lines.
The province of Quebec reported 1,092 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, bringing the total number of people infected 338,044. The number of active cases in the province went down from Sunday to Monday’s report, going from 13,449 to 12,852.
Monday’s report also included 15 new deaths, although the total number of deaths in the province linked to COVID-19 only increased by 14, to 10,816, due to the withdrawal of one previously reported death that could not be linked to the virus.
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Ferme Morine of Coaticook was one of three farms honoured by the Quebec Dairy producers for the quality of their milk, along with Ferme Martin & Renaud Boutin inc. of Saint-georges and Ferme Vicain SENC of Saint-éphrem-de-beauce. The winners were announced during the 2021 annual general meeting of the Producteurs de lait du Québec.
The gold medal or Lait’xcellent OR 2020 was awarded to Ferme Morine, owned by Véronique Lévesque and Réjean Morin since 2001.
They are the third generation. According to Ferme Morine, producing quality milk is a team effort that is done with great passion. Every day, they make sure that the bedding made of sawdust and straw is dry. Twice a week they add a drying product that also has a beneficial effect on the animals’ feet. Milking is done with a conventional milking system and always at the same time in order from the highest to the lowest somatic cell count. Sending the cows to pasture is also a factor that greatly contributes to the health and wellbeing of their cows, the producers said. Lévesque and Morin said the quality of their milk is mainly due to a close follow-up of the health of each cow and keeping a close eye on milk quality results.
In addition to winning first place at the provincial level, Ferme Morine also won two Grand Distinction and five Very High Distinction certificates in recent years.