Federal Provincial Territorial COVID-19 web management working group/February 1 2022

Updates

1. Updates

HC PHAC

Travel

GAC experienced an outage on the Travel site on Jan. 21. They’ve set up a daily publishing window for travel updates until they can get it fully resolved.

Recent updates

• January 31 Orders in Council
• Exposure notices page is now focused only on cruise ships

• Expemptions for BC, truckers and amateur sports
• Travel wizard for foreign nationals

• Removed pre-departure test requirements for travellers coming to Canada on direct or indirect flights from India or Morocco

Updates coming soon

• Unvaccinated and vaccinated traveller handouts

Rapid Testing Dashboard - HC

David Froom showed the mock up of the Rapid Testing distributed across Canada dashboard that is in development.

• Includes functionality to allow users to select custom date ranges for the data
• Data buckets:
  • Procurement
  • Shipped to provinces
  • Distributed directly to organizations
  • Distribution to provinces
• You can download the whole data set
• Still need to complete testing for accessibility and usability
• Aiming to publish at the end of next week

TBS DTO

• Communications: Blog post about chatbots will be out in the next week on blog.canada.ca

BC

• Dr. Henry will be announcing the use of boosters for anyone 12+
• Announcement about use of COVID treatment later today

Yukon

• Publishing a COVID dashboard at the end of this week

2. Provincial and Territorial Links - Feedback Requested

Please check to ensure PT links on these pages are accurate:

• COVID-19: Provincial and Territorial resources
• Where to get tested and how to get rapid tests
• Vaccines: Getting an appointment

Please send feedback to David Froom ([[1]])

3. GC Task Success Survey presentation - Peter Smith, DTO

• Presentation: GC TSS - FPT - Feb 2022 - EN.pptx - Google Slides