The Quebec government announced new guidelines on Thursday to protect frontline workers in hospital emergency rooms from COVID-19. “The protocol was completely reviewed yesterday and we have given out new instructions across the province,” said Quebec Health Minister Danielle McCann.
The new measures will allow healthcare workers to apply COVID-19 criteria to every patient showing symptoms of an infectious disease. “Any person who goes to an emergency room with infectious symptoms, such as a sore throat or gastro, will be given a mask to wear and will be required to wash their hands,” McCann said.
The news was welcomed by health care workers who had been pushing for new guidelines. “Staff were quite worried,” said Gilbert Boucher, president