Quebec is cutting the isolation period related to COVID-19 in half. Those infected will now have to self-isolate for five days after obtaining a positive test result.
If the symptoms have not disappeared or at least “regressed”, the ten-day quarantine period remains. The senior strategic medical adviser of the General Directorate of Public Health of the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services, Marie-France Raynault, confirmed the news on Tuesday in a technical briefing.
In addition, only “high risk” contacts will have to follow the isolation rules. Public health is talking about people in a relationship with or from the same bubble as an individual who has received a positive test.
Further details will follow.
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