Students and children must screen for COVID-19 every day before going to school or child care. Parents/guardians can fill this out on behalf of a child.
Results of Screening Questions
If you answered "No" to all questions, your child may go to school/child care. Follow your school/child care provider's established process for letting staff know about this result.
• As per regular protocols, all sick individuals with any symptoms of illness should stay home and seek assessment from their regular health car provider if required.
• Individuals with severe symptoms requiring emergency care should go to their nearest emergency department.
• If the individual got a COVID-19 vaccine or flu shot in the last 48 hours and is experiencing mild fatigue/tiredness, muscle aches, and/or joint pain that only began after vaccination, they must wear a properly fitted mask for the entire time at school/child care. They may take the mask off to quickly eat or drink and must stay at least two metres away from others while it is off. If their symptoms worsen, continue past 48 hours, or if they develop other symptoms, they should leave school/child care immediately to isolate.If you answered "YES" to ANY question, your child cannot go to school or child care. Contact your school/child care provider to let them know that your child will not be attending school today. See below for isolation and testing requirements.
NOTE: When the option of [5, 10] days is listed:
• If the student/child is fully vaccinated OR 11 years old or younger, use 5 days
• If the student/child is 12 years old or older AND is not fully vaccinated OR is immune compromised, use 10 days.If you answered "Yes" to any of the symptoms listed under question 1, do not go to school or child care.
• The student/child must isolate (stay home) and not leave except to get tested or for a medical emergency.
• If the student/child is not tested, they must isolate for [5, 10] days from when symptoms started, and stay in isolation until their symptoms have been improving for 24 hours (or 48 hours after nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhea), and they do not have a fever, whichever is longest.
• When determining the isolation period, the day your symptoms began is day 0. For example, for those isolating for 5 days, if you develop symptoms on Saturday (day 0), you can return to school on Friday (day 6).
• If testing is available:
• If a single PCR test, rapid antigen test, or rapid molecular test is positive, the student/child should follow the guidance above for "if you are not tested" and isolate for [5, 10] days.
• If a single PCR test or rapid molecular test is negative, or two rapid antigen tests collected 24-48 hours apart are both negative, the student/child may return to school/child care when their symptom(s) have been improving for at least 24 hours (48 hours for nausea, vomiting, and/or diarrhea) and they do not have a fever.
• Household members must stay home at the same time as the student/child, whether they are fully vaccinated or not, unless they tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 90 days and have already completed their isolation.
is negative or two rapid antigen tests (RATs) collected 24-48 hours apart are both negative, the student/child may return to school/child care when their symptom(s) have been improving for 24 hours (48 hours for nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhea).
• Household members, including siblings, must stay home at the same time as the student/child whether they are fully vaccinated or not.
If you answered “YES” to any of the symptoms listed under question 2, do not go to school or child care.
• If the student/child has experienced
only one of these symptoms in the last [5, 10] days the student/child must stay home until the symptom has been improving for at least 24 hours (48 hours for nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhea). A negative test result is not required for return to school/child care.
• If the student/child has been identified as a “close contact” of someone with COVID-19 in the last 10 days, even if they are fully vaccinated and the contact was not living with them, it is more likely that they have a COVID-19 infection. They must isolate for [5, 10] days and until they do not have a fever and their symptoms have been improving for at least 24 hours (48 hours for nausea, vomiting, and/or diarrhea).
• If the student/child has experienced
two or more of these symptoms in the last [5, 10] days, they must stay home.
• If the student/child is not tested, they must isolate for [5, 10] days from when the symptoms started and stay in isolation until their symptoms have been improving for 24 hours (48 hours for nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhea), whichever is longest.
• If testing is available:
* If a single PCR test, rapid molecular test, or two rapid antigen tests collected 24-48 hours apart are both negative, the student/child may return to school/child care when their symptoms have been improving for at least 24 hours (48 hours for nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhea) and they do not have a fever.
• Household members must stay home at the same time as the student/child, whether they are fully vaccinated or not, unless they tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 90 days and have already completed their isolation.
NOTE: If you answered "YES" to question 1, follow question 1 guidance for next steps.
If you answered "Yes" to question 3, do not go to school or child care.
• The student/child must isolate (stay home) and not leave except to get tested or for a medical emergency.
• If the student/child must isolate for [5, 10] days from when symptoms started or from when they tested positive for COVID-19 (whichever was first) and stay in isolation until their symptoms have been improving for 24 hours (or 48 hours after nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhea symptoms), whichever is longest.
• When determining the isolation period, the day the symptoms started or the student/child tested positive is day 0. For example, for those isolating for 5 days, if the student/child developed symptoms or tested positive on Saturday (day 0), they could return to school/child care on Friday (day 6).
• Household members must stay home at the same time as the student/child, whether they are fully vaccinated or not, unless they have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 90 days and have already completed their isolation.If you answered "Yes" to question 4, do not go to school or child care.
• The student/child must isolate (stay home) while there is anyone in the home who is isolating because of symptoms, a positive COVID-19 test result, or is waiting for a COVID-19 test result. The student/child should only leave home for a medical emergency.
• All household members must stay home at the same time as the household member who has COVID-19 symptoms or is a positive COVID-19 case, whether they are fully vaccinated or not, unless they tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 90 days and have already completed their isolation.
• If another household member develops symptoms or tests positive, the student/child must continue isolating until they have also finished their own isolation period. The initial household member(s) with symptoms and/or positive test results do not have to extend their isolation period based on other household members developing symptoms.If you answered "Yes" to questions 5 and 6, do not go to school or child care.
• The student/child must isolate (stay home) for [5, 10] days and not leave except to get tested or for a medical emergency. When determining the isolation period, the day the symptoms started or the student/child tested positive is day 0. For example, for those isolating for 5 days, if the student/child developed symptoms or tested positive on Saturday (day 0), they could return to school/child care on Friday (day 6).
• As long as the student/child and their household members do not develop any symptoms, other people in the household can go to school, child care or work, but must not leave the home for other non-essential reasons.