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Ontario Makes COVID Vaccination And Random Testing Mandatory For All Long Term Care Employees, Students And Volunteers | Kawartha 411 Staff, support workers, students, and volunteers will have until November 15, 2021 to show proof that they have received all required doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, or to show proof of a valid medical exemption. Staff who do not have all required doses or a valid medical exemption by the deadline will not be able to enter a long- term care home to work. Newly hired staff will be required to be fully vaccinated before they begin working in a home unless they have a valid medical exemption. Homes will begin randomly testing fully vaccinated individuals, including staff, caregivers and visitors, to help detect possible breakthrough cases of COVID-19 as early as possible. In addition to adding randomized testing of vaccinated individuals, homes will continue to regularly test individuals who are not fully vaccinated. The ministry will leverage provincial testing resources to inspect and audit these results by sending testing teams into homes to validate the results that homes have been reporting to the province. The ministry will also step up rigorous inspections of homes' infection, prevention and control measures. These new measures are the latest tools among a suite of actions the Ministry of Long-Term Care has taken to protect residents in long-term care, including: Ontario Makes COVID Vaccination And Random Testing Mandatory Fo... https://www.kawartha411.ca/2021/10/01/ontario-makes-covid-vaccinatio... 3 of 4 10/5/2021, 4:19 PM