The province will continue with a pilot project introduced two months ago that eases some of the restrictions for rotational workers.

The provincial government has released a review of a rotational worker pilot project introduced back in September.

For some time, rotational workers had been seeking to ease some of the public health restrictions placed upon them, which meant they were almost continually in self-isolation since March.

The pilot project reduced the self-isolation period down to seven days from 14—provided that their COVID test taken on day five is negative.

Health Minister John Haggie says there is no need to be more restrictive with rotational workers. As a result, no further changes to the program will be made at this time.

The Quality of Care review concluded that the change in policy was “not associated with harm in that there were no community-acquired cases arising from rotational workers, and the incidence in rotational workers exposed to the policy was zero.”

It cautions, however, that limitations include the short period of time evaluated and the relatively small number of workers in the observation period.