Note: What is Close Contact* and Probable** Case?
*Close contact includes providing care, living with or otherwise having close prolonged contact (within 2 meters/6 feet) while the person was ill, or contact with infectious bodily fluids (e.g. from a cough or sneeze) while not wearing recommended personal protective equipment.
**Probable case is a person with clinical illness who had close contact to a lab-confirmed COVID-19 case, while not wearing appropriate personal protective equipment, OR a person with clinical illness who meets the COVID-19 exposure criteria, AND in whom laboratory diagnosis of COVID-19 is inconclusive.
Clinical illness of a probable case is new onset/exacerbation of following symptoms: fever (over 38 degrees Celsius), cough, shortness of breath (SOB)/difficulty breathing, sore throat or runny nose.
Exposure Criteria for a probable case is a person who, in the 14 days before onset of illness,
» had any history of travel outside Canada; OR» had close contact with a confirmed or probable case of COVID-19; OR
» is a close contact of a traveler with acute respiratory illness who returned from outside Canada in the previous 14 days; OR
» had laboratory exposure to biological material (e.g. primary clinical specimens, virus culture isolates) known to contain COVID-19.