Carlos returned from vacation with his family on March 13. That’s when the authorities told him he would have to go into quarantine. He has been waiting out the two-week period so he can return to work. His co-workers, who clean a building at Yonge and Eglinton in Toronto, are frightened; he shares their concerns.

Carlos is the shop steward at his workplace – he wants to make sure these questions don’t go unanswered. 

Truth be told, Carlos doesn’t think his workplace should have remained opened in the first place. “It is a very busy and crowded place,” he says. He believes people should have been told to isolate sooner. Having said that, it’s a very difficult situation for workers like Carlos. “Employment insurance is not sufficient,” he says.

Carlos moved to Canada from Chile in 2001 and like many of his co-workers, he has family in other countries who are going through the same worries.  According to Carlos, everyone is nervous and scared.