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Household members of those awaiting COVID-19 test results must now join them in quarantine, the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit announced Monday.
Under new measures put in place by the provincial government to contain more highly contagious variants of concern, household contacts of symptomatic people who have been tested for the virus must also stay home and self-isolate until the test recipient receives a negative result or alternate diagnosis from a health-care provider.
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Previously, only the individual waiting for the test result had to quarantine, and household contacts would only quarantine if the test came back positive.
Author of the article: Taylor Campbell
Publishing date: Apr 16, 2021 • 3 hours ago • 3 minute read • The Integrative Canadian Group Organization began distributing 50,000 face masks on Friday, April 16, 2021. The masks from the Canadian Red Cross will be distributed to various local senior homes and heath-care facilities. Khassan Saka, president of the organization, is shown with the stockpile of masks at the Wyandotte Street West office. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star
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Nearly one in three Windsor-Essex residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 since March don’t know where they caught it.
Data presented by the region’s medical officer of health on Friday shows 31.7 per cent of local people who’ve been infected in the last 47 days contracted the disease through “community transmission,” meaning none of their friends or family gave it to them that they know of and they weren’t exposed through an outbreak.