Broward camp counselor tests positive for coronavirus. This is not the first time for camp.
A counselor in David Posnack Jewish Community Center’s upper camp has tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, the camp announced Tuesday.
This comes after the center’s preschool was suspended indefinitely because two teachers had tested positive last week.
In a letter to parents Tuesday, Scott Ehrlich, CEO of the David Posnack JCC, said the counselor was last at camp on Friday.
“We immediately contacted parents of all campers in the counselor’s group to pick up their children,” Ehrlich said in the letter. “The Department of Health recommends all staff and campers in this group be tested and remain at home.”
If the tests come back negative, those campers and staff members will be able to return July 6.
Ehrlich said camp groups are limited to 10 children and each group had their own room where they stay together for the entire day.
“The room that this group was in will be thoroughly sanitized and not be used by other groups,” Ehrlich told parents.
Last week, Ehrlich learned that a preschool teacher tested positive for the virus. That news came one week after another teacher had tested positive.
Ehrlich said last week that he suspended the preschool camp — separate from the upper camp — until all staffers could be tested.
