Chosen for random testing - Alberta quarantine time?

If you are asymptomatic, and haven't received any confirmed positive result, there's no longer any quarantine period. It's unenforceable anyways, regardless, so don't worry about it.

Edit- oh, just re-read and the question is if it comes back positive. Then it should just be 5 days if asymptomatic.

5 days in Canada

If you are returning to Canada after traveling outside the country, the quarantine is 10 days from the positive test result.

Here's the information they send and you should be receiving shortly by email:

For the 14 days after you entered Canada, if you test positive for COVID-19 or develop symptoms, you must:

immediately isolate yourself from other members of your household for a period of 10 days that starts from the day you received your positive test result, swabbed your nose, or developed symptoms, even if your province or territory has a shorter isolation period;

report your symptoms or positive test to the Minister of Health by calling 1-833-641-0343; and

contact your local public health authority.

In addition, if you travelled with a person who develops signs and symptoms of COVID-19 or receives a positive result for any type of test before the expiry of the 14-day period, you must quarantine for 14 days starting the day you were most recently exposed to the other person, even if your province or territory has a shorter quarantine period.

A screening officer may contact you to confirm your compliance with these requirements. Failure to comply may result in fines of up to $5000 and/or transfer to a designated quarantine facility.

We urge you to be diligent in meeting these requirements; this will help slow the spread of the virus and save lives.

Thank you for continuing to do your part!

FOR MORE INFORMATION

General Inquiries

1-833-784-4397 or canada.ca/coronavirus

10 days is correct, you fall under federal rules if the positive test result comes from border testing.

michelb wrote: ↑ If you are returning to Canada after traveling outside the country, the quarantine is 10 days from the positive test result.

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immediately isolate yourself from other members of your household for a period of 10 days that starts from the day you received your positive test result, swabbed your nose, or developed symptoms, even if your province or territory has a shorter isolation period;

I don't think that wording is correct. On the official government website, it's 10 days from the date the test was actually taken, not when you receive the results.

If you start to show symptoms during your quarantine, or test positive for COVID-19, you must isolate for 10 days. Your first day of isolation starts on the earliest of the date:

• you took the test
• you received your test result (if the test date is not available) or
• when the symptoms started

https://travel.gc.ca/travel-covid/trave ... /isolation

So now that you don't have to isolate after you take a random arrival test until you actually get a positive result, if you do get one on day 3 (for example), the quarantine is only for 7 days until you hit day 10 post-test (all assuming you are fully vaccinated and asymptomatic).

techcyberman wrote: ↑ I don't think that wording is correct. On the official government website, it's 10 days from the date the test was actually taken, not when you receive the results.



https://travel.gc.ca/travel-covid/trave ... /isolation

So now that you don't have to isolate after you take a random arrival test until you actually get a positive result, if you do get one on day 3 (for example), the quarantine is only for 7 days until you hit day 10 post-test (all assuming you are fully vaccinated and asymptomatic).

Thanks for the update. This is certainly a big part of the problem - the message is not always clear or can even conflict with other information. What I pasted above was copy / paste from the email I received on March 26 2022 after entering Canada. Email was from "[email protected]". It's certainly possible that rules have changed since then as the rules are also consistently being update for accuracy and because of changing requirements.

michelb wrote: ↑ Thanks for the update. This is certainly a big part of the problem - the message is not always clear or can even conflict with other information. What I pasted above was copy / paste from the email I received on March 26 2022 after entering Canada. Email was from "[email protected]". It's certainly possible that rules have changed since then as the rules are also consistently being update for accuracy and because of changing requirements.

Should be noted however that for fully vaccinated people, they use the phrase "isolation" versus "quarantine" - the difference being that for the latter (people who are unvaccinated), they actively enforce.

For "isolation", no active enforcement (like continuously checking up on you everyday), you are only advised to follow the instructions.

(also re-read what you copied from the e-mail - that can also be construed as the 10-day period starting from the earliest of the three dates (when you are actually tested), although not as clear as the webpage).

techcyberman wrote: ↑ Should be noted however that for fully vaccinated people, they use the phrase "isolation" versus "quarantine" - the difference being that for the latter (people who are unvaccinated), they actively enforce.

For "isolation", no active enforcement (like continuously checking up on you everyday), you are only advised to follow the instructions.

(also re-read what you copied from the e-mail - that can also be construed as the 10-day period starting from the earliest of the three dates (when you are actually tested), although not as clear as the webpage).

You are correct; I didn't even notice the "... swabbed your nose ...". This would be the day you took the test.