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Experts say current air quality recommendations for public spaces are not sufficient to prevent small particulate matter, including pollutants in smoke, from circulating indoors.

Experts say current air quality recommendations for public spaces are not sufficient to prevent small particulate matter, including pollutants in smoke, from circulating indoors.

Some P.E.I. students will see something new in their classrooms when they return to in-person learning on Monday.

As the highly transmissible Omicron variant fuels record-high case counts, and schools across Canada delay in-person learning, calls are growing for another layer of protection to be added to classrooms — HEPA filters.

While vaccines and masking continue to be important to stopping the spread of COVID-19, experts say proper ventilation and filtration are also key and companies need to take them into account as they continue to develop back-to-work plans.

Opinion: The urgent need for widespread rapid testing Special to National Post © Provided by National Post A medical worker performs a COVID-19 swab test upon a woman at a rapid-testing station at the Panagia Evangelistria Greek Orthodox Church in Cyprus capital Nicosia on Jan. 29. The following open letter arguing for the adoption of widespread rapid testing in Canada was signed by 28 members of the medical and business communities. As the second wave of the pandemic contin...