Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. I can kind of speak to what's happening now around medically-advised self-isolation and what's been happening for the last little while.
So two reason -- generally two reasons why individuals need to stay in an isolation centre. One is if they need it -- were directed there because of an order following travel. And in the last few months it was because they needed to isolate before they went into a small community so the isolation centres were set up for that. But most of the use, actually, in the last few months, and particularly with the omicron outbreak, was around medically-advised self-isolation. So that's when, because of a positive -- typically a positive COVID test, they were directed into isolation because of -- by a public health official and they could not do that safely at home and so then the advice was to come into an isolation centre, and it was -- that service was provided by the COVID Secretariat.
The other big use was around the vulnerable population and with cases in there that they did not have a safe place to isolation, then they were taken into the isolation centres.
For the month of March now, where the requirement to isolate after travel is no longer in the order, so we're not -- no longer need to operate the isolation centres for travelers, but they are still there and available. We've kept kind of one or two -- one staff person available so that we can just assist when there still is a requirement for medically-advised self-isolation. And this is kind of pretty extreme cases. We're not getting a lot. In fact, I think the first day we kind of had three calls about it. And then in the last week, we have not had any requirements for medically-advised self-isolation following. So given as omicron cases continue to come down, we would expect the requirement for this medically-advised self-isolation would continue to decline. And into the future what happens after the end of the public health emergency, I guess that would be at the direction of the Chief Public Health Officer and any isolation requirements from her and her office. Thank you.