Key takeaways:
- PEI. Chief Public Health Office says changes to rules are coming this week.
- PEI’s isolation regulations for close contacts have caused many kids and their households into isolation, following COVID-19 cases and outbreaks at child-care centers.
PEI’s parents frustrated due to strict quarantine rules:
PEI’s Chief Public Health Office states it intends to modify its isolation rules for intimate contacts of COVID-19 cases, which some states are creating challenges for child-care centers and families.
The region has among the most rigid needs for close contacts in Canada, forcing Islanders who aren’t entirely vaccinated to quarantine for seven days from the previous possible exposure and those with at least two doses to isolate for four days.
The CPHO hasn’t told precisely what will vary with the needs for close contacts; just that information is arriving this week.
At Little Ducklings Childcare Centre in Stratford, P.E.I., the present laws have initiated one group of kids to isolate at residence for a week, two different times, simply a few days apart.
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“They are young, so they can’t isolate alone,” stated Nicole LeClair, the center’s owner. So that impacts pretty much the whole family. So they go into isolation, they come back, it’s been a few days, and the same thing has occurred again.
“It’s an emotional call to make because you’re playing with [parents’] livelihoods and requesting them to remain home from work, some of whom are not paid to do so.”
Little Ducklings is among the dozens of centers struck with COVID-19 cases and pandemics on PEI. It’s all sent an increasing number of young families into quarantine.
Sarah Ashby lately spent almost a week isolating themself from her spouse and two kids after her youngest was recognized as a close contact at daycare.
Source – cbc.ca
