Federal Provincial Territorial COVID-19 web management working group/October 18 2022

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Meeting Information

Tuesday October 18, 2022 - 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

  • Join meeting via Meet:

https://meet.google.com/sqv-xykt-wag

Join by phone

+1 647-734-3101(Canada)

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Agenda

  • Provincial and territorial updates
  • Federal updates
    • COVID
    • Transition of the Crown
    • Ebola virus disease
    • Monkeypox
  • Canada.ca trust research approach
  • Building a forward agenda together

Notes

Updates

Covid

  • BC
    • Retired or significantly cut down on everything non-medical for COVID (Travel, provincial health guidelines, etc)
    • Launched fall booster campaign for Flu and COVID
    • Both vaccines are now being booked through a provincial centralized booking system
  • PEI
    • Still maintaining a COVID site, with calls to action on provincial homepage, but reconsidering as most pieces don’t seem to be needed any longer
    • Comms are now delegated to individual departments instead of provincial communications
  • Alberta
    • Updates to info on travel restrictions, including items you no longer need to do
    • Vaccine info has been updated for bivalent boosters
    • Most other changes waiting for direction based on provincial leadership change
  • Yukon
    • Streamlined content, and content updates are now being led by the Department of Health and Social Services rather than corporately in the Executive Council Office
    • Still have a link in a site alert on the main provincial government home page but it's unlikely anyone sees it any more
    • COVID hub on the main Yukon government site
  • Health Canada
    • New vaccines and treatment options are approved
    • Boosters for children 5-11 also approved
    • Updated rapid antigen information to meet most recent accuracy standards
    • Removing COVID trends November 2
    • Updated policy decision
  • COVID travel
    • Travel landing page now the only page with travel related content
    • Page includes statements indicating what you no longer have to do as this helps ease concerns for international travellers coming from places where some restrictions may still be in place
    • All guidance documents now redirect back to landing page
    • Alert was added for the October 1 lifting of travel restrictions
    • New policy decision on rapid testing frequency and timing with symptoms and after exposure

Ebola

  • Ebola disease page will soon have updates with new name - Sudanese Ebola Disease variant
  • Travel - Border handout has been updated

Monkeypox

  • Health Canada
    • Working on a new page about Monkeypox and animals
    • Working on a content for what to do about adverse side effects from the vaccine (Imvamune)
    • Industry requirements for tests will be published soon
    • Extra info has been updated, in addition to information on new treatment that has been approved
    • Monkeypox EPI Dashboard - may start reporting weekly, probably every Friday
  • Nova Scotia
    • NS monkeypox campaign page started as an info-based campaign page, but has grown to have vaccine info/booking function

Dental Benefit

  • Canada Dental Benefit page launched (CRA)
  • Includes eligibility details even though it hasn’t received Royal Assent, with a note that Legislation is under review and pending approval by Parliament

Transition of the Crown Terminology across the entire GC is slowly getting updated, including contracting, licensing and copyright.

  • Transition of the Crown — what it means for Canadians
  • Commemoration for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II


Hurricane Fiona Public Safety has centralized content to provide provincial-specific links, and other EI information has been updated to allow people who cannot access EI through the traditional means, Geo-located alerts will provide additional information for accessing services through special circumstances

  • Employment Insurance benefits
  • News release: Accessing Employment Insurance for those affected by Hurricane Fiona
  • Government of Canada Response to Hurricane Fiona
  • Nova Scotia Response Page
  • PEI response page

Canada.ca Trust study Presentation Lisa Fast, Digital Transformation Office

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