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TORONTO Ontario’s medical officers of health are calling on the Ford government to reopen all schools first before reopening other sectors of the province as transmission of COVID-19 appears to be decreasing. Chair of The Council of Ontario Medical Officers of Health Dr. Paul Roumeliotis penned a letter on Friday to Education Minister Stephen Lecce and Health Minister Christine Elliott. The letter stresses that the “safe reopening of all schools in Ontario is essential” even before community restrictions are lifted. We think now that the time is right. That we re seeing more and more schools open across Ontario before the lockdown indeed has been removed and this should be continued across Ontario where the numbers are appropriate. Again, not to wait for essential businesses to open but if we see levels going down in the right direction we should make that move across Ontario, Roumeliotis tells CP24.
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Published Thursday, January 28, 2021 10:46AM EST Students in four more regions of the province, including London and Ottawa, will be permitted to return to in-person learning starting Monday. In a news release issued Thursday, Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce confirmed that students at schools in four more public health units, including Ottawa, Eastern Ontario, Middlesex-London, and the Southwestern Public Health Unit, have now been given the green light to return to the classroom. On the advice of the Chief Medical Officer of Health, with the support of the local Medical Officers of Health, and with the introduction of additional layers of protection, 280,000 students in four public health regions will return to class on Monday, February 1,” Lecce said in a written statement released Wednesday.
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Staff of the area’s public health unit are asking residents, especially young adults, to get tested for COVID-19 and not dismiss symptoms as being cold-related.
“During the pandemic, please do not ignore your symptoms and assume it is just a cold,” said Dr. Piotr Oglaza, medical officer of health for Hastings and Prince Edward Counties, in a news release.
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Even mild symptoms should result in testing, the release stated, noting young adults are less likely to have severe complications from the virus yet being infected increases the chance of spreading it to others.