What you're required to do in Manitoba if a close contact shares a positive COVID-19 diagnosis with you
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Manitoba’s move to ask people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 to notify their own close contacts can be effective as long as people are honest, according to one expert.
Manitoba’s move to ask people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 to notify their own close contacts can be effective as long as people are honest, according to one expert.
Cynthia Carr, an epidemiologist and founder of EPI research, sees the need for faster notification amid rising case counts and the emergence of a more transmissible variant.
“The faster people know, the faster we take action, the faster we can work together to stop the spread of this variant that really wants to move very quickly,” Carr said.
Nova Scotia has also started asking people with confirmed cases to notify close contacts and so have some health units in Ontario.
Manitoba has said with an Omicron surge expected, the number of cases and contacts will exceed public health notification resources.
Dr. Brent Roussin, the province’s chief public health officer, first mentioned the move on Friday.
“We’re going to, in many ways, in lower-risk situations have cases contacting their contacts and informing them,” Roussin said last week.
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