This rule comes as the province's seven-day average for COVID cases has increased more than 10-fold over the last month.
A new COVID-19 vaccine requirement in Canada is having a significant impact, according to recent vaccination rates.
In the wake of this new rule, first-dose vaccination appointments in Quebec quadrupled in the course of a day, according to the. When the requirement was announced, the province was averaging around 1,500 appointments a day. On Friday, Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé announced that the number had skyrocketed to roughly 6,000.
As of January 1, around 78-percent of Quebec were fully vaccinated. It has the fifth-highest rate of complete vaccination across all of Canada's provinces, behind British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland & Labrador. This rate is also higher than any U.S. state, ahead of Vermont's 77.8% of residents.