Oregon will allow day camps to move forward with significant restrictions, but overnight camps for school-age children will not be allowed to operate this summer amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The Oregon Health Authority released a new seven-page memo with guidance for summer camps Friday. The new guidance was significantly different from draft guidance put together by the agency earlier this month. That guidance had stipulations to allow overnight camps to move forward, but the state instead opted not to allow overnight camps to operate.

Day camp operators must meet detailed guidelines to operate under the new guidance, and some camps will likely need to completely change offerings to open.

Programs will be required to put together protocols for screening campers and staffers for coronavirus symptoms and notifying local health authorities of any COVID-19 cases. They will also have to keep a daily log with information on each group within the camp to enable contact tracing, if necessary.

Camps will be asked to split campers into static groups of 10 or fewer children, assigning the same staffers to work with the group as much as possible. Those groups will not be allowed to change more frequently than once per week and will remain in the same physical indoor space from day-to-day, if the camp is run indoors. Camps can have multiple groups, if the square footage of their facility allows for enough physical distancing between campers and groups.

Camp operators can continue to provide campers with food and supplies, as well as transportation, if they abide by specific protocols. Campers will be allowed to swim in lakes if 6 feet of distancing can be maintained, but swimming pools remain closed statewide.