Employees At 6 SAQ Locations Have Tested Positive For COVID-19 In The Last Two Weeks

The province's liquor association says they've been placed in 'preventative isolation.'
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Fifty-three SAQ employees have tested positive for COVID-19 since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Societé d'Alcools du Québec's COVID-19 info page.

Six of those cases occurred in the last two weeks.

Only one of the newly diagnosed employees worked at a Montreal SAQ, a Mont-Royal Est location at 940, avenue du Mont-Royal Est. 

The rest of the newly reported cases were in Drummondville, Longueuil and L'Ancienne-Lorette

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12 SAQ employees that tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 35 days

According to SAQ, when an employee is affected by COVID-19, the employee and all colleagues in contact with them are placed in preventive isolation.

Cases throughout September and October align with the second wave of COVID-19 in Quebec, and most businesses have been forced to close temporarily

The retail industry remains the sector with the most COVID-19 outbreaks in the province.

On its website, SAQ said 47 out of 53 employees who tested positive for the virus have been instructed by Quebec's public health authority to resume activities as usual.

  • Lea Sabbah
  • Lea Sabbah was a Staff Writer for MTL Blog. Previously, Lea was a radio host on CJLO 1690 AM and her work has been published by Global News, the Toronto Star, Le Devoir and the National Observer. In 2019, she was part of the investigative team that uncovered lead in Montreal's drinking water — a story which won Quebec's Grand Prix Judith-Jasmin. She's a graduate of the journalism program at Concordia University.

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