Public Health Measures Update
Written by Jeremy Zafran on 9 March 2022
A community update from The Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre Public Health Department and the Public Safety Commission on the current Public Health Measures in the community. Under the Kahnawà:ke Emergency Preparedness Law, Directive #65, the KMHC testing site in Kahnawake remains available only for essential service workers and people who are being admitted for surgery who provide a negative test result prior to admission. Community members can still access PCR testing at testing sites in surrounding communities such as: Chateauguay, Kirkland and Lachine.
The KMHC reminding Kahnawá’kehró:non that if you have COVID-related symptoms, you must assume that you have COVID-19 and isolate for 5 days, where on day 5, if you no longer have symptoms or your symptoms are lessening and you have not had a fever for 24 hours, you are released from isolation but must take precautions for the next 5 days. You are asked to continuously wear a medical-grade mask everywhere, maintain a minimum 2-meter distance from others, avoid all vulnerable people and if you are returning to work, you must work away from all others and not share any common spaces. If you have COVID-related symptoms and/or are positive from a rapid test and are not vaccinated or vaccinated with only 1 dose, the isolation time remains at 10 days.
Public Health recommends that individuals use their judgment, knowledge, education, and acceptable level of risk when deciding about distancing in their personal indoor and outdoor home environments.
