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ON Extending Paid Covid Sick Days

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If you need to take time off to get tested for Covid-19, eligible workers will still receive up to $200 a day.

Since April 2021, the provincial government has provided a payment to eligible employers to cover workers missing time in order to get tested, vaccinated, receive booster shots, self-isolate, or care for a family member who is ill from COVID-19. This benefit has been extended until March 31, 2023.

Those workers will continue to receive up to $200 a day for up to three days if needed and the government will continue to reimburse the eligible employers for the paid leave days.

More details can be found here.

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Vaccinated Travellers No Longer Need PCR COVID-19 Test To Enter Country

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Travellers will no longer need a PCR COVID-19 test to enter Canada.

Beginning Feb. 28, travellers can choose a rapid antigen test approved by the country they are coming from.

The federal government will also return to the random testing surveillance program for all vaccinated travellers.

“This means fully vaccinated travellers arriving in Canada from any country in the world will only need to take a PCR COVID-19 test if they are randomly selected,” said Federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos.

Travellers who are randomly selected will not be required to quarantine while waiting for test results.

Unvaccinated children travelling with vaccinated adults who arrive to Canada will no longer have to isolate from school or daycare for 14-days.

However, unvaccinated Canadians will still need to get tested at the airport and isolate.

As well, the ban on international flights at all remaining airports that normally receive them will be lifted on February 28.

“This is great news for communities like London, Windsor, Fort McMurray, Moncton, and many others, by receiving international flights this will support local tourism, create good jobs, and grow our economy,” said Federal Transport Minister Omar Alghabra.

Alghabra added the remaining airports will work with Transport Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and the Canada Border Services Agency to put in place measures to start safely accepting travellers in the coming weeks and months.

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Ontario To Roll Out Rapid COVID-19 Test

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Ontario will soon be using new rapid COVID-19 tests in select parts of the province.

The tests will provide a result with 5 to 15 minutes.

Dr. Vanessa Allen with Public Health Ontario says they anticipate the first 100,000 being used next month.

They will be used in remote and rural parts of the province where the distance means there’s lengthy turn-around time for results on the standard test.

Allen says to test their accuracy, the standard lab test will also be given along with the rapid one.

Associate Medical Officer of Health Dr. Barbara Yaffe says testing is just one part of dealing with the virus.

“It’s also the support that these people need to know what the symptoms are, to be able to take time off of work to go for testing, to be able to–if they’re positive–to isolate appropriately,” Yaffe says.