MONTREAL — Quebec Premier Francois Legault does not plan to get tested for COVID-19 despite having met with federal Conservative leader Erin O'Toole Monday.
O'Toole and his family are getting tested for COVID-19 after a member of his staff tested positive.
- Conservative Leader O'Toole, family getting tested for COVID-19
Legault said on Twitter that public health does not recommend isolation or screening, "only monitoring for symptoms."
"We will continue to follow these recommendations," he wrote.
A statement from O'Toole's party said he has not shown any symptoms, but that he, his staff and family are getting tested as a precaution.
Legault said he contacted public health and that the degrees of separation between himself and the positive case means it is a "low risk" of exposure.
Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet is also in self-isolation, awaiting the results of his own COVID-19 test after both his spouse and an aide tested positive for the illness.
Blanchet's aide's positive test, a few days after the Bloc caucus met in person in St-Hyacinthe, Que., prompted dozens of MPs and party workers to isolate themselves.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau tested positive for COVID-19 early in the pandemic but recovered.
-- with files from The Canadian Press.
