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Another halt to in-person learning is currently unnecessary in Windsor-Essex even though the number of students dismissed because of potential classroom COVID-19 exposures equals those sent home ahead of the last school shutdown, the regionâs top doctor said Tuesday.Â
While the whopping 600 students and 30 staff now in self-isolation following infections at 24 schools have put a strain on public health unit nurses, the number of positive cases within that group is much lower than in December, when Medical Officer of Health Dr. Wajid Ahmed ordered schools to close. Multiple schools had significant outbreaks at that time, but, as of Tuesday morning, no local schools were in outbreak.
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Ontario is reporting under 2,000 new COVID-19 cases to start February.
However, Ministry of Health officials say additional records were reported for Toronto Public Health on Monday, resulting in an overestimate of daily case counts.
The province added 1,969 new cases with 68 per cent in the hot spots around the GTHA.
Nearly 30,400 tests were completed over the last day and 244, 939 people have recovered since the start of the pandemic.
Another 36 people have died.
Test positivity, when accounting for errors and duplicate tests, is at 5.2 per cent.
TORONTO New COVID-19 case numbers in Ontario have once again reached new heights as the province logged more than 2,900 new infections for the first time. The 2,923 cases added Wednesday mark a sharp increase over the previous record of 2,553 set a day earlier. At the same time, testing for COVID-19 in Ontario continues to fall well below the province’s recent run of 60,000 plus tests processed per day. With just 39,210 tests completed in the last 24 hours, Ontario’s COVID-19 positivity rate sits at 8.4 per cent, according to numbers provided by the government.
Wednesday s report brings Ontario’s COVID-19 case total to 178,831, including deaths and recoveries.
Thorncliffe Park PS remains closed as COVID-19 outbreak investigation continues
by News Staff
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Public health officials have decided to to keep an East York school closed a few days longer as they continue to look into a COVID-19 outbreak.
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letter to parents of students at Thorncliffe Park Public School said the school would be closed until Dec. 10 as a result of the outbreak, now Toronto Public Health says all students and staff have been advised to stay out of the building until next week.
Important Update: @TOPublicHealth has advised that students & staff at Thorncliffe Park PS should continue to be dismissed for the remainder of the week so they may continue their investigation. As a result, Thorncliffe Park PS will reopen on Monday, December 14.