The Medical Officer of Health for Public Health Sudbury & Districts is reinstating work-from-home requirements.
Dr. Penny Sutcliffe also says strong recommendations for COVID-19 protections are being issued to area schools, businesses, and organizations and stricter measures for the follow up of contacts of cases of COVID-19 are being enacted.
“We have carefully reviewed recent data and consulted with the province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health. Although school-based cases and household spread are currently driving our continued high case counts, cases continue to be reported among young adults, social settings, and workplaces. It is hard to find a setting that is not impacted,” said Dr. Sutcliffe. “With the widespread circulation of the virus in our community, our response also needs to be widespread, reducing mobility and face-to-face interactions overall. This is the purpose of the work-from-home Instructions. Further, every sector needs to do their part, voluntarily at this time, to pave the path to lower case rates and re-opening.”
Effective 12:01 a.m. Monday, November 29, 2021, the updated Letter of Instructions will require businesses and organizations open in the City of Greater Sudbury to ensure that workers are conducting their work remotely, unless the nature of their work requires them to be on-site at the workplace.
Certain exceptions apply.
Public Health is reissuing its call to everyone to continue to limit outings, work from home, get vaccinated, wear a mask and keep 2 metres distance from those outside your household.
They say continued high COVID-19 case rates mean that the Public Health Sudbury & Districts area is among the top three most affected jurisdictions in Ontario.