Active screening is no longer required for staff, students, volunteers, support workers, caregivers, and visitors. Anyone wishing to come to the home for any reason should self-monitor for symptoms of COVID-19 and other respiratory or infectious diseases. If you’re unwell, stay home.

Residents will no longer be required to actively screen when returning from an absence.

Asymptomatic testing is no longer required for staff, students, volunteers, support workers, caregivers, and visitors. This means that you will no longer need to complete a rapid test when coming into one of our long-term care homes.

Masking requirements indoors remain in place for staff, students, volunteers, support workers, caregivers, and visitors.

Masking requirements outdoors for residents, caregivers and visitors has been removed. However, masking outdoors remains in place for staff when they are in close proximity to a resident.

Our long-term care homes may hold activities without adjusting to optimize for physical distancing.

The limit of one caregiver at a time during an outbreak or when a resident is symptomatic or isolating under additional precautions is no longer required.

Homes will no longer be required to submit daily COVID-19 outbreak data to the ministry, however they will continue to be required to report confirmed outbreaks using the Critical Incident System.

LTC homes will continue to be required to monitor residents daily to detect the presence of infection, including COVID-19. However, measures which go beyond what is required under the IPAC Standard, including daily temperature checks for COVID-19, will no longer be required.