Summer camps hold out hope amid uncertainty caused by COVID-19 pandemic

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Many camps across the country have voiced the desire to open, but cannot do so until provincial health officials give them the green light to start the season

. Quebec’s YMCA still hopes to offer camps at 10 locations, and traditional venues such as Camp Kéno, Camp Wilvaken and Camp Lac-en-Coeur plan to open if given the chance. Director of Public Health Horacio Arruda announced in a news conference on Friday that summer camps in Quebec might open “in respect of some conditions.” Quebec’s Provincial Association of Camps expects to learn more about what those conditions are from the Directory of Public Health by May 15.

Camp directors in some eastern provinces where the virus appears to be contained are hopeful they will get permission from health officials to start operating with a few modifications. In New Brunswick, where 118 of 119 COVID-19 cases were considered recovered on Tuesday, certain outdoor activities that can ensure physical distancing could resume as early as May 8.

“We usually get 700 campers,” he said. “This year, it might be 400 or 200, but it’s still an opportunity to have a regular summer for us and for them. Right now, we would be happy to have that, and I think families will be happy too.”

 

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Uncertainty? On what planet do they think kids will be gathering at summer camps this year?

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