Public Health needs your help for contact tracing. Our team can no longer call ALL contacts of positive cases because of high numbers and staffing shortages.

COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose a threat to the population. Please limit your contacts.

How you can support contact tracing

If you tested positive for COVID-19

If you are positive, the contact tracing team will give you instructions to isolate.
Let your friends and family know right away that you tested positive.
This will help identify all people in your circle who may be at risk.
If they are at risk, they have to take precautions to protect others around them.

Who could be at higher risk?

People you had close contact with during the infectious period, before you started isolating.

That includes:

People you had contact with in the 48-hour period before your positive test.
People you had contact with the time period of 48 hours before you developed symptoms, until you started to self-isolate.

These people should self-isolate until they can get tested.

How do I know someone is a close contact?

Make a list of everyone you spent time with in the time periods described above, especially:

If you spent time together indoors
If you spent time together in a car
If you were together outside, less than 6 feet apart, without masks

How to list your contacts: Check your phone/texts/inbox and social media to help remember what you have been up to in the last few days.

Who is living with you/staying in your house, even if they have left already?
Who has visited you in your house for 30 minutes or more?
Who did you go visit for 30 minutes or more?
Who did you visit in hospital, Elder’s lodge, or at Espresso?
Who have you been in a car with?
Who did you share a meal with?
Who did you party with?

What do I tell my contacts?

Let them know that you tested positive for Covid-19.

Tell them they should assume they are positive and should isolate too.

If they start to have symptoms, they should get tested.

Have you been in contact with a positive case?

If you are a contact, assume you are positive too

Isolate for 10 days, or until Public Health calls you to follow up on your case
Isolate even if you don’t have any symptoms
Monitor yourself for symptoms

If you have symptoms

If you start to feel sick while you’re isolating, assume you are positive. Inform your PSO.
Call anyone you have had close contact with 48 hours prior to the onset of your symptoms.

If you don’t have symptoms (asymptomatic)

Isolate for 10 days
Wait at 3-5 days before calling to book a test
Monitor your symptoms during that time
If you develop symptoms, you don’t have to wait to call for a test

If you are isolating and received a negative result from your 1st test, you still have to finish the 10-day isolation period.

To limit the risk of transmission, we recommend that everyone reduce their circle of contacts and follow precautionary measures.

Wear a medical mask that covers your nose and mouth at work and in all indoor public places.
Stay 6-feet (2-metres) away from others
Wash your hands frequently

Why wear a medical mask

The virus is transmitted through the air. This is why it’s important to wear a snug-fitting mask when you’re around other people, and indoors.
Cloth masks do not provide enough protection against airborne transmission.
The Cree Health Board recommends people wear medical (procedural) masks if they are available.