What should I do if I have been in close contact with a person diagnosed with COVID-19 or suspect being infected?

A close contact is a person who has been in contact with a person diagnosed with COVID-19 for at least 15 minutes at a distance less than two metres.

Examples of close contacts are:

a person living in the same household as a person diagnosed with COVID-19 (e.g. family members);
a person who has had a direct physical contact with a person diagnosed with COVID-19 (for example, shaking hands);
a person who has been in direct contact with the secretions of a person diagnosed with COVID-19 without the use of protective equipment (e.g. the person diagnosed with COVID-19 coughed on them, a person who touched the napkin of the person diagnosed with COVID-19 with bare hands);
a person who has been in the same room (e.g. classroom, meeting room, hospital waiting room, work room, etc.) as a person diagnosed with COVID-19, where there is insufficient ventilation and/or personal protective equipment is not used and there is a risk of exposure to the virus.

People who have contracted COVID-19 are infectious for about two days before and up to ten days after the onset of symptoms.