The province announced the new policy for health-care workers on Tuesday in the face of thousands of COVID-related absences, despite a wave of backlash from health unions and experts. In all cases, they will have to follow strict self-isolation at work until the 10 standard isolation days are up. Workers who are exposed to a positive case at home, however, are asked to isolate for seven days. Quebec in 'crisis mode,' says doctorDr. Donald Vinh, an infectious disease specialist at the McGill University Health Centre, said asking COVID-positive health-care workers to stay on the job is not ideal, but it shows that the Quebec government is in "crisis mode." "We are in a fixed, limited number of health-care workers in every province because there's no reservoir or pool of health-care workers that we can sort of depend on to bail us out here,'' he said.

Source: CBC News December 30, 2021 09:12 UTC