LONDON, ONT. School and health officials say classrooms remain safe, even with active COVID-19 cases in 30 London-area schools. According to the Thames Valley District School Board (TVDSB) website, there are currently 26 schools in the region with at least one or more active COVID-19 cases, but only a small fraction have led to outbreaks. Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) Medical Officer of Health Dr. Chris Mackie says the region has not really seen much spread in schools. The vast majority of cases diagnosed in school were acquired at home. We ve seen very little transmission within schools, really only a handful of cases among the tens of thousands of students that have been in school for the last two months, so schools are not a place of high transmission in this area.
KITCHENER There were another 82 COVID-19 cases reported in Waterloo Region on Tuesday. Of those cases, 77 were reported on Tuesday, while the others were added to previous days totals. That brings the number of lab-confirmed cases to 12,270 so far, including 11,625 resolved ones and 243 deaths. There are 386 active cases in Waterloo Region. The region s COVID-19 dashboard shows 584 cases have screened positive for a variant of concern. Of those, 31 have been identified as the B.1.1.7 variant first identified in the U.K. There are 20 people in hospital receiving treatment for COVID-19, including six in the ICU. The region s dashboard shows 13 active outbreaks. This includes a third outbreak at Holy Rosary Catholic Elementary School. There are two cases associated with that outbreak. An outbreak was also declared in a cohort at the school on April 2 and March 28. That school has closed for the week due to people self-isolating following COVID-19 exposures.
There were no new deaths reported.
As well, public health said there were no active outbreaks in long-term care or retirement homes in the region.
The region reported there are now 584 cases of COVID-19 that have screened positive for a variant of concern, with 31 confirmed to be the B117 variant first detected in the U.K.
Waterloo school closes due to outbreaks
There were four outbreaks in schools with three separate outbreaks at Holy Rosary Catholic Elementary School in Waterloo. The school is temporarily closed this week after three classrooms were sent home to self isolate. Each outbreak had two cases each. At least one of the outbreaks is linked to students who ride a bus.
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The London District Catholic School Board said Holy Rosary Catholic Elementary School will be closed from April 6 to 9 after half of the students along with two-thirds of staff were self-isolating due to the three positive COVID-19 cases.