COVID Symptoms – If sick, stay home and get tested

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COVID-19 Self-Monitoring – For Staff, Visitors and Residents in Independent Living

In our Independent Living Apartments (Pavilion, Terrace West, Primrose Gardens), we provided daily Active Screening for COVID-19 from the onset of the pandemic until 14 days after the 2nd dose vaccination clinics in those buildings. Active Screening is when another person asks you the COVID-19 screening questions in-person. This gives them the ability to look at your eyes, your face-color, your countenance in order to add their observations to the screening process.

Residents in Assisted Living and Long-Term Care continue to be screened for COVID-19 symptoms daily. Staff at Menno Place continue to be screened for COVID-19 symptoms daily.

As we’ve entered Step 3 of the BC Restart Program (July 1, 2021), it is important that all Independent Living residents and all visitors to the Menno Place campus practice self-screening and take appropriate action when they have symptoms, even mild, of COVID-19.

What do you do if you have symptoms of COVID-19? Follow the Fraser Health instructions for COVID-testing provided on this website – CLICK HERE.

How do you self-screen to ensure that you are safe to visit at Menno Place? Answer the following questions:

Do you have NEW ONSET of COVID-19-like symptoms? Follow COVID-19 testing instructions if you answer YES. Do not come for a visit.

  • Fever (above 37.8C)
  • Cough
  • Nausea
  • Headache
  • Chills
  • Sore Throat
  • Loss of sense of smell
  • Vomiting
  • Loss of appetite
  • Extreme fatigue or tiredness
  • Body aches
  • Loss of sense of taste
  • Difficulty breathing
  • Diarrhea

Do you have a risk factor for COVID-19 exposure?

Do not come for a visit if you say YES to any of these (unless an exception is made such as essential workers: long-haul trucker or healthcare worker who crosses the USA/Canada border regularly)

  • In the past 14 days, have you returned from travel outside of Canada?
  • In the past 14 days, have you been in close contact with anyone diagnosed with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19?
  • In the past 14 days, have you lived or worked in a setting that is part of a COVID-19 outbreak?
  • In the past 14 days, were you discharged from an acute care unit in a hospital that is on COVID-19 outbreak?
  • In the past 14 days, have you been advised to self-isolate or quarantine at home by Public Health?
  • Do you have a COVID test pending?