Windsor-Essex County Health Unit has done an about face just days after instructing all businesses in the region to halt further plans to bring in temporary foreign workers for at least three weeks.The health unit’s acting medical officer of health’s instruction would have affected roughly 2,000 migrant workers.At the time, Dr.
Shanker Nesathurai said the southwestern Ontario region was grappling with a significant surge in COVID-19 outbreaks at agricultural enterprises.
Within the span of a week, the region’s self-isolation hotel for migrant workers had filled and at least three additional hotels were also used in the self-isolation effort.
Omicron COVID-19 variant concerning for Canadian food production, farm groups say But at 6:30 p.m. last Friday, the health unit rescinded the Letter of Instruction.