B.C.’s top doctor has issued a new self-isolation order after seven B.C. residents who returned from an Alberta oil sands project tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry issued a new order requiring anyone who has visited the Kearl Lake project in northern Alberta since March 15 to self-isolate for 14 days upon their return to B.C.
Anyone in that situation or their family members who begins to show symptoms should call their health-care provider or 811 to arrange for testing, Henry said.
B.C. has also expanded its testing strategy so that anyone with COVID-19 symptoms can get tested, Henry added. For weeks, the province had focused its testing on health-care workers, vulnerable people and