Ontario's chief medical officer of health is urging all long-term care homes in the province to allow ONLY essential visitors into their facilities until further notice to protect residents from COVID-19.
Dr. David Williams issued a memo to long-term care homes, retirement homes, supportive housing and hospices on Friday.
It said “In order to ensure a safe and secure environment for residents, we strongly recommend that these settings only allow essential visitors until further notice.”
Essential visitors are defined by the Ontario health ministry as people who are visiting a resident who is dying or very ill, or a parent or guardian of an ill child or young person in a residential treatment setting.
Williams said all visitors must continue to be “actively screened” to enter long-term care homes and those who fail the screening, will not be allowed to enter the facility.
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