Wearing masks to protect against COVID-19 could become a matter of “personal choice,” rather than an obligation, as early as the end of the month, Quebec’s interim public health director says.

Luc Boileau told reporters he was encouraged by a steady drop in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and outbreaks of the disease, adding that recent projections by health-care research institutes suggested the situation in the province would continue to improve.

Based on that data, the government could lift mask mandates by late March, he added.

“It’s kind of impossible to ask a whole population of 8.5 million people to continue to wear masks to protect a part of them,” he said.

Masking, he said, would become a “personal choice in the context of a progression to a normal life,” but he added that “if there are people who feel more comfortable wearing a mask, of course they will be able to.”

Global’s Olivia O’Malley takes a closer look at the risks and rewards of the removal of COVID-19 health restrictions.

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