Federal Provincial Territorial COVID-19 web management working group/September 15 2020

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1. Updates
2. Needs going forward
3. Roundtable
4. Next steps

Needs going forward

Saskatchewan

• School based information content; and Fall/Winter guidance gatherings
• Reluctant to dial back to smaller numbers for gatherings; and minor league sports

Nova Scotia

• Self isolation requirements and exceptions; moving from pdf/email form to more digital registration and check-ins with public health
• university students returning to the province so far hasn’t increased the numbers

NWT

• Similar to other jurisdictions, school and isolation are high on our list of content at the moment
• Launched tracing app last week

Ontario

• Leading back up to school, and seeing a rise in numbers over the last few days - what will that mean on changing our content in the next few days
• Small businesses reopening and who are struggling, financial support
• Lots of interest in “Self-assessment tools”; currently one launched for the courts; and soft launched yesterday one for students going to school

Here are the links to Ontario's screening tools:

• General self-assessment: EN https://covid-19.ontario.ca/self-assessment/
• Courthouse screener: EN https://covid-19.ontario.ca/courthouse-screening/
• School screener: EN https://covid-19.ontario.ca/school-screening/

PEI

• Bit by bit the travel restrictions are opening up; and private business are mostly reopened with public health measures

Manitoba

• Schools reopening; digital campaign around school information that will start soon
• Regular communications about COVID19 regulations, standard precautions
• Regions using a yellow red green response system, not a phase system and is based on case numbers and contact tracing

Here's the link to the Pandemic Response System that Manitoba recently launched: https://www.manitoba.ca/covid19/restartmb/prs/index.html

Federal

DTO

• Priorities - business reopening; travel wizard launch

Public Health

• Shifting from travel health wizard, focusing on the COVID19 vaccine

Yukon

• Looking at guidance for parents on when to keep children at home and for employers on when to ask staff to stay at home. Also a campaign for our "safe 6" campaign based on these guidelines that are a foundation for our approach: https://yukon.ca/en/health-and-wellness/covid-19-information/6-steps-staying-safe-covid-19

Future agenda:

• How are your digital comms structured - centralized/decentralized
• Do you have multiple governmental groups involved in digital comms and who does what;
• How do your IT and comms groups work together
• How are sites managed - unified/integrated approach or just following "standards"
• Look at different screeners that provinces and territories have created