Shared by the Ministry of Health
Updated May 2, 2020
Updates to the document includes:
- Additional detail for transfer from hospitals to LTC
- Additional guidance for testing newborns
- Conjunctivitis added to atypical symptom list
- Added considerations for underlying reasons patients presenting with ONLY runny nose, sneezing or congestion, such as seasonal allergies and post-nasal drip
Resource includes:
- Hospital Inpatients
- Residents in LTC and Retirement homes
- Residents of other congregated living settings and institutions
- Persons working in congregate living settings and institutions
- Persons living in same household of healthcare workers, providers and first responders
- Remote, isolated, rural or indigenous communities
- Specific priority populations
- Essential workers
- Cross-Border workers
- Priorities in situations of resource limitations