Ontario Ministry of Health
To review the current guidance for self-isolation, please download the Ontario Ministry of Health’s Management of Cases and Contacts of COVID-19 in Ontario (PDF).
If you have COVID-19 symptoms, test positive for COVID-19, or you're a close contact of someone with COVID-19, please review the information below for guidance.
Do you have any COVID-19 or flu symptoms?
Learn when to stay home, when to leave isolation and how to protect others when returning to public settings. Download the helpful guide below in English, French, Arabic and Simplified Chinese.
Family Doctor Tips on Caring for Children with Respiratory Symptoms
Download this helpful resource from the Ontario College of Family Physicians and find tips on caring for children with respiratory symptoms (PDF).
To review the current guidance for self-isolation, please download the Ontario Ministry of Health’s Management of Cases and Contacts of COVID-19 in Ontario (PDF).
If you are feeling unwell, take the COVID-19 Self-Assessment to determine if you have symptoms of COVID-19 and need to self-isolate. If you have symptoms, assume that you are positive for COVID-19 and follow the following self-isolation requirements which apply to you.
Stay Home
Consider Going Out/Consider Leaving Self-Isolation
Return to Public Settings
For the remainder of the 10 days that began when your symptoms started:
Do you live or work in a high-risk setting?
If you live or work in a high-risk setting, please review additional information here.
If you work in a high-risk setting and you either have symptoms of COVID-19 or have tested positive for COVID-19 on a PCR or Rapid Antigen Test, you must:
If you live in a high-risk setting and you either have symptoms of COVID-19 or have tested positive for COVID-19, public health and the facility will work together to provide isolation instructions.
You’ve been identified as a close contact of someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 or someone with COVID-19 symptoms. Now what?
For a total of 10 days after your last exposure to someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 or who has COVID-19 symptoms:
Close Contact
A close contact is someone with whom you were within two metres’ distance for at least 15 minutes, or multiple shorter lengths of time, without personal protective equipment within the 48 hours before your symptoms started or you had your positive test, whichever came first.
High-risk Settings
Hospitals (including complex continuing care facilities and paramedic services), home and community care workers and congregate living settings with medically and socially vulnerable individuals, including, but not limited to, Long-Term Care, retirement homes, First Nation elder care lodges, group homes, shelters, hospices, correctional institutions, Provincial Demonstration Schools and hospital schools.
Self-isolate
For information about how to self-isolate, please review Public Health Ontario's How to Self-Isolate (PDF).
Self-monitor
For information about how to self-monitor, please review Public Health Ontario's How to Self-Monitor (PDF).
This support package includes links to supports and resources to help assist you with navigating days in self-isolation.
Groceries | Self-Isolating / Recovery |
Pharmacy / Medicine / Prescriptions | Hygiene and Cleaning |
Mental Health | Pets |
Financial Supports / Social Services | Entertainment |
*Disclaimer: Please note that this list is not exhaustive. Where businesses are listed, their inclusion does not indicate or imply that the business and/or its products or services are endorsed by the Middlesex-London Health Unit. If your business is providing an essential service during the COVID-19 pandemic, please contact the Health Unit to be included on this list health@mlhu.on.ca.
See links below for various food resources which include food delivery and/or pick up.