The Quebec government will impose vaccine-pass requirements on those wishing to attend mass and other religious services as part of new public health measures to counter the Omicron variant.

From today, places of worship will reduce capacity by 50 per cent, with a cap of 250 people. Vaccine passports will be required and people must be seated.

Funerals and weddings can have up to 25 people without requiring vaccine passports, but up to 250 people with passports.

Since October, dioceses in other Canadian states, such as Newfoundland, already instituted a vaccine-pass requirement for attending mass in response to Government rules.