Over the course of the pandemic, a variety of workplaces have been forced to close temporarily due to restrictions or COVID-19 outbreaks. Now, into the third wave, the province is changing its focus and steering away from closing only non-essential businesses.
WINNIPEG Over the course of the pandemic, a variety of workplaces have been forced to close temporarily due to restrictions or COVID-19 outbreaks. Now, into the third wave, the province is changing its focus and steering away from closing only non-essential businesses. For essential and non-essential businesses, we re going to be having that ability to close businesses on a targeted basis where we re seeing transmission occur, said Dr. Brent Roussin, chief provincial public health officer. Roussin said businesses are required to report to Public Health if they have two or more cases of COVID. If we look at overall acquisition events, we see about 10 per cent both acquisition and transmission related to workplaces right now, said Roussin.