Federal Provincial Territorial COVID-19 web management working group/August 17 2021

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Updates

• HC Reminder that Caretaker Convention is now in place due to the upcoming election
  • all important health and safety messaging will continue to be updated with timely information

• Travel
  • Reminder: COVID-19 Summary data about travellers page is updated regularly on Fridays
  • Updates and changes to COVID travel pages:
    • Transit through Canada including to and from Alaska - updated title
    • Testing for travellers - added new testing providers + new protocols
    • Vaccinated travellers entering Canada - added section for travelling with unvaccinated children
    • Mandatory quarantine or isolation - updated rules
    • Mandatory hotel stopover - ended August 9 - added alert to the top of the page and Ended in the title
      • Will be going through the rest of travel to cleanup referencing the mandatory hotel
    • ArriveCan pages continue to be updated
    • Travel landing page - removed certain pages to slim it down

• Vaccine
  • ‘Ask the expert’ videos - advertising campaign is allowed to continue during election
    • Secondary campaign for Parents with children under 12
    • New updates on rapid testing in the workplace

• DTO For information purposes, new regional agencies New Prairie and Pacific regional area
  • Some of the financial supports (CERS, CEWS, CRCB, CRSB, CRB) are extended to October 23 , and content will be changed soon

• Provincial/Territorial
  • BC: Prepping to start offering 3rd dose for select populations
  • Ontario: Paused reopening plans for now, and 3rd doses will happen for certain groups
  • Yukon: Still continuing to promote vaccination, including youth born in 2009 or earlier. Hoping to launch our 'living with Covid" document soon rather than renew our state of emergency that expires on 25 August.

Discussion items:

• Still in the works is a national method for proof of vaccination (future state)
• BC: Can either be mailed or print one for you for non-digital purposes
  • Working on app, can use the print out received at vaccination, and through a public-facing app that was developed for long term homes

• Forward planning:
  • FPT common priorities / priorities for upcoming months - Susan will present at next meeting
    • Right now ensuring messaging on vaccination and travel is uniform
    • Preparing for life post pandemic but keeping an eye on if there is a fourth wave

Notes and action items

• ACTION: Provincial and Territorial Restrictions - please take a look and send any changes that need to be made to Samira Hammoud
• ACTION: Proof of vaccination - Please send any Province/Territory link updates for proof of vaccination to Susan Harper
  • Right now the page has been developed for travel but will change as provinces and territories develop information about proof of vaccination documentation