2022 COVID MANAGEMENT PLAN

Following several months of consultation with our CKB Health & Wellness Committee, Quebec Public Health, and the other Montreal camps, I am pleased to be able to share our Covid Management Plan for the summer of 2022. Please take the time to carefully review this plan and please contact guy@ckb.ca if you have any questions.

VACCINATION 

All campers and staff must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with two doses of a vaccine recognised by the Canadian government. Our camp also strongly recommends that all eligible campers receive their third dose 2-3 weeks prior to their start of camp and that they email the date of that third dose (if it was administered) to erica@ckb.ca. All staff are required to have received all boosters for which they are eligible at least two weeks prior to their arrival at camp. 

FIVE DAY PERIOD BEFORE CAMP

Our greatest chance at limiting the entrance of the virus into our camp is by doing everything possible to not contract the virus prior to the start of our season. Over the five day period leading up to their departure to camp, all campers and staff, and everyone with whom they live, are asked to wear a mask whenever they are in a public space or near any person that does not live with them. 

ANTIGEN TEST & SYMPTOM SCREENING BEFORE CAMP

1. All campers and staff are required to self-screen for Covid-19 symptoms over the ten day period leading up to their departure for camp. These symptoms include fever/chills, cough, shortness of breath, sore throat, runny nose, nasal congestion, decrease/loss of taste and/or smell, nausea/vomiting/diarrhea, headache, extreme fatigue, and muscle pain.

2. All campers and staff are also required to take an at-home rapid antigen covid test one day prior to their departure for camp.

3. If the covid test result is positive, the camper or staff member will be asked to stay at home and join camp six (6) days after the positive test result, providing all symptoms have resolved and the camper or staff member is fit to join all activities.

4. Campers or staff who have symptoms prior to their departure for camp and have taken an antigen test where the result is negative, will be asked to stay at home until symptoms resolve in order to limit the entrance of all types of viruses that can easily spread at camp.

5. Campers or staff who were exposed to someone with whom they live who tested positive for covid, can only join the camp ten days from the date that this person tested positive providing that the camper or staff member did not have any symptoms for at least 24 hours and has tested negative on day ten, prior to their departure for camp. The camper must have permission from the camp to rejoin the camp. Please contact guy@ckb.ca or 819-425-3332.

6. Campers or staff members who exhibit any of the symptoms listed above, were exposed to someone who tested positive in the ten day period leading up to their departure for camp, or test positive during the days leading up to camp, are asked to notify office@ckb.ca immediately.

7. A SCREENING FORM where campers or staff members will be asked to attest to the fact that they have not experienced any symptoms over the ten day period prior to their start of camp, that they were not exposed to someone who tested positive in the ten day period leading up to camp, and that their at-home antigen test is negative, must be submitted to CampMinder by 12:00pm (noon) the day before their departure for camp in order for them to be able to board the bus or enter camp. The Screening form will be made available on CampMinder the day before your campers’ start date and we will email you to remind you to complete this form.

MITIGATION AT CAMP 

To mitigate the risk of covid entering our camp, we are limiting the entrance to, and exit from, camp to essential business and trips. We have cancelled our Kinneret Rishonim Weekender Program, Kinneret Visitors Day (Biluim never had a Visitors Day), and all excursions from camp with the exception of our canoe camping trips. Our staff will be able to leave camp for their days and nights off, but they will be required to to wear a medical mask when indoors, avoid indoor dining, and avoid crowds and large gatherings where social distancing is not possible.

Visitors that are necessary for the functioning of our camp, including doctors, maintenance staff, and outside service providers, will remain outdoors as much as possible and be masked and socially distanced from others if they must enter a building.

COVID-19 ASSESSMENT & MANAGEMENT AT CAMP

If a camper develops symptoms compatible with Covid at camp but is feeling well and only needs temporary symptomatic relief (ie.Tylenol and a short rest in the infirmary) and is up to joining all activities, a Covid test will not be routinely performed and the camper will be permitted to remain in their cabin/tent. Routine Covid testing of asymptomatic campers will not be done. While Covid may still be around, there are other respiratory viruses also circulating and we will be managing all of these illnesses just like any "cold" as was done in the "pre-covid" era. 

If a camper presents with symptoms that prevent them from participating at camp, parents/guardians may be asked to pick up their camper so that they can convalesce at home. The camper will be welcome to return to camp providing all symptoms have resolved, the camper is fever free for 24 hours (without the use of tylenol or advil), and the camper is deemed fit to join all activities. Campers from foreign countries and from BC, will be able to convalesce in individual loge units that our camp rented, each loge unit equipped with a bed, washroom and air conditioning. Campers from Ontario and Quebec will be able to convalesce in these units providing we have the space to accommodate them.

STATEMENT OF RISK

Despite the efforts that we have listed above to mitigate the entrance of the virus to our camp, it is understood that we are not able to operate in complete isolation and are therefore at risk of the virus entering our camp. Our campers, staff, and their families, understand this risk and will not hold Camp Kinneret-Biluim liable or responsible. As the pandemic continues to evolve, we reserve the right to modify this covid management plan.