Sylvan Lake

With a recent increase of active COVID-19 cases in the community, the Town of Sylvan Lake’s region classification has been upgraded to “watch”, and as a result, Alberta Health Services, and the Chief Medical Officer of Health, has mandated new measures for all residents, and visitors within town to follow.

MANDATORY MEASURES (AS OF November 09, 2020)  

• 15 person limit on social and family gatherings - indoors and outdoors - where people are mixing and mingling. This temporary limit will be reassessed and lifted when daily case numbers are down and spread is sufficiently reduced.
  
  
• Applies to all social gatherings, including but not limited to:
  >> banquets and award ceremonies
  >> wedding or funeral receptions
  >> luncheons or potlucks
  >> parties: birthday, baby showers, retirement, dinners, backyard BBQs
  >> other private social gatherings and functions

• Does not apply to structured events, including but not limited to:
  >> seated-audience sports/shows
  >> conferences
  >> fitness centres
  >> funeral service
  >> in-person dining in restaurants
  >> wedding ceremonies
  >> worship services

VOLUNTARY MEASURES

• Limit your cohorts to no more than 3: your core household, your school, and one other sport or social cohort. Young children who attend child care could be part of 4 cohorts, given that child care settings have not been a high risk for spread.
• Wear a mask in all indoor work settings, except when alone in a workspace like an office or cubicle where you are safely distanced from others, or an appropriate barrier is in place.

WHY THESE MEASURES ARE NEEDED

We must take action now to help slow the virus's spread and make sure the health system can continue supporting patients with COVID-19, influenza and many other needs. There is a time lag between transmission and new case identification. This means the cases we see today were infected up to 2 weeks ago.

We must work together to protect each other. The greater the community spread, the more likely it will infect our loved ones most at risk of severe outcomes, including death.

What else you can do
We must continue following existing public health measures to keep ourselves and others safe:

• Keep 2 metres apart when you can, wear a mask when you can't
• Practice good hygiene: wash your hands often and cover coughs and sneezes
• Monitor your symptoms every day
• If sick, stay home, get tested, and follow mandatory isolation requirements while waiting for results:
  >> if positive, isolate from others for 10 days or until symptoms are gone, whichever is longer
  >> if negative, stay home until you're better

• Avoid non-essential travel
• Get the flu shot to keep influenza cases low so health workers can focus on the COVID-19 pandemic