By Carol Thomson
Jun 15, 2021 | 3:46 PM
Once you are two weeks past your second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, if you are named as a close contact of someone who has tested positive for the virus, and you remain asymptomatic, you won’t have to isolate. Health Minister Paul Merriman says the level of protection provided by the two doses of vaccine is why the government can announce this new guideline.
If you have symptoms though, you will have to self-isolate and be tested. Anyone who is unvaccinated or has only had one vaccine, must still self-isolated if they are named as a close contact.
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Public health warn of toxic, illicit drug supply
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Author of the article: Steph Crosier
Publishing date: May 17, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 2 minute read A client station inside the Consumption and Treatment Services Site on Montreal Street in Kingston, Ont., on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. (Steph Crosier/The Whig-Standard/Postmedia Network) Photo by Steph Crosier /The Whig-Standard
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The local public health agency is warning of a particularly toxic illicit drug supply circulating in the region.
Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health said in a news release that recent drug toxicology reports have found fentanyl, carfentanil and benzodiazepine analogues in the supply and that hospital visit data provided to the agency by the Ministry of Health shows there was a record-high number of opioid overdoses in the area.