  {"id":78608,"date":"2021-08-17T16:49:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T20:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=78608"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:22","slug":"government-announcement-on-vaccination-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2021\/government-announcement-on-vaccination-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Announcement on Vaccination Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Government Announcement on Vaccination Policies\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>August 17, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To All Members of the 杏吧原创 Community,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier today, the Government of Ontario, in consultation with the Chief Medical&nbsp;Officer of Health&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/en\/release\/1000750\/ontario-makes-covid-19-vaccination-policies-mandatory-for-high-risk-settings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;that COVID-19 vaccination policies will be mandatory in higher-risk settings, including post-secondary institutions. Further, the Government has paused the province\u2019s exit from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/reopening-ontario\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">Roadmap to Reopen<\/a>, and current Step 3 restrictions therefore remain in effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No changes to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/covid19\/safe-return-to-campus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\">return to campus plans<\/a>&nbsp;we have put in place and to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/2021\/vaccination-requirements-campus-access\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"3\">our recently announced vaccination requirements<\/a>&nbsp;are needed at this time.&nbsp;We are continuing to monitor Ontario\u2019s reopening plans and will adjust our plans as required by evolving regulations and public health advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we prepare to welcome phase 3 units back to campus on Monday, more details regarding how to access campus including how to use the new cuScreen screening system will be provided later this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will continue to keep the community updated as things evolve.&nbsp;For more information regarding 杏吧原创\u2019s response to COVID-19, please visit the&nbsp;<a title=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/covid19\/\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/covid19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"4\">COVID-19 website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suzanne Blanchard<br>\nCOVID-19 Lead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 17, 2021 To All Members of the 杏吧原创 Community, Earlier today, the Government of Ontario, in consultation with the Chief Medical&nbsp;Officer of Health&nbsp;announced&nbsp;that COVID-19 vaccination policies will be mandatory in higher-risk settings, including post-secondary institutions. Further, the Government has paused the province\u2019s exit from the&nbsp;Roadmap to Reopen, and current Step 3 restrictions therefore remain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":78572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1632],"tags":[1633],"class_list":["post-78608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78610,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78608\/revisions\/78610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}