Message from Public Health Sudbury and Districts:
The Ministry of Health has provided additional guidance on case, contact and outbreak management for Public Health. Public Health will now only be proactively following up with workplaces if it is determined that a positive case lives, works, attends, volunteers or is admitted to a highest risk setting as defined below. All other workplaces will no longer be actively called by Public Health Sudbury & Districts, and are encouraged to follow directions provided on the Ministry of Health website in response to workplace related exposures to COVID-19. Workplaces are encouraged to designate a most responsible person in the workplace to support this follow-up.
Under the current provincial testing strategy, availability of COVID-19 testing is limited. Only highest-risk individuals have access to testing. Please support your employees who have been identified as COVID-19 cases or contacts so that isolation activities, as required by Public Health under the legally enforceable Class Order, can be maintained. In addition, please do not report RAT positive results or individuals you suspect to have COVID-19 based on symptoms or exposure history to Public Health unless they live, work, volunteer, or are admitted in a highest risk setting:
- hospitals and health care settings, including complex continuing care facilities and acute care facilities,
- congregate living settings and institutions including Long-Term Care Homes, retirement homes, First Nation elder care lodges, group homes, shelters, hospices, temporary foreign worker settings, and correctional institutions
- health care workers providing care to immunocompromised people,
- paramedics
For more information or if you have questions, please visit phsd.ca/COVID-19 or call Public Health Sudbury & Districts at 705.522.9200 (toll-free 1.866.522.9200).
Read the complete announcementhere.
Latest Letter of Instruction from PHSD
In addition to the current proof of vaccination requirements of the Step 2 Rules, the new Letter of Instruction maintains enhanced sector specific proof of vaccination requirements (beyond those required by the Step 2 Rules) that were already in place locally. The following summarizes those requirements:
- Businesses that provide personal care services relating to the hair or body, including hair salons and barbershops, manicure and pedicure salons, aesthetician services, piercing services, tanning salons, spas and tattoo studios, that were established on an “opt-in” basis by the rules in Step 3, continue to be mandated to require clients show identification and proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or a valid medical exemption.
- Facilities for sports and recreational fitness activities must ensure each person, age 12 years and older, at the point of entry, who attends the indoor area of the Facility must provide identification and proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or a valid medical exemption.
- Photography studios and services in respect of indoor areas, that were established on an “opt-in” basis by the rules in Step 3, continue to be mandated to require clients show proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or a valid medical exemption.
- Proof of vaccination requirements for businesses that provide boat tours, that were established on an “opt-in” basis by in the Step 3 Rules continue to be mandated to require clients show proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or a valid medical exemption.
These instructions are legally enforced by Public Health officials and by Provincial Offences Officers and failure to comply with these instructions throughout the Public Health Sudbury & District Service Area (including Sudbury and Manitoulin districts) is an offence.
Read the complete announcement here.