Duty to Report

The Reporting Information Affecting Public Health Regulation, B.C. Reg. 167/2018 requires at section 4 that any person in charge of an institution or workplace who has been advised by a Medical Health Officer that a person who is or has been present at the institution or workplace is an infected person must, if requested by the Medical Health Officer, report the contact information, if known, of each person who may have been exposed to the infected person and make a report to the Medical Health Officer in the form and manner required by the Medical Health Officer.

The novel coronavirus is a prescribed infectious agent in the Schedule to the Regulation.