With the winter break approaching, there is concern families won t abide by public health recommendations and will gather during the holidays. People do gather around that Christmas holiday . We would have people potentially coming back to school who may have engaged in a gathering larger than you re supposed to, increasing the risk [to others] and they would be asymptomatic, so it wouldn t necessarily be caught by screening, Danko said.
Education Minister Stephen Lecce said in a statement on Friday afternoon that as we continue to see increased rates of community transmission, our schools remain safe. To put this into perspective eight out of ten schools in this province have no active COVID-19 cases at all and 99.66 per cent of students have never reported a case of COVID-19, he said.
Posted: Dec 15, 2020 8:55 AM ET | Last Updated: December 15, 2020
Thirteen more COVID-19 cases have been reported at Hamilton schools, including three at R.A. Riddell Elementary School.(Google Maps)
Thirteen more students and one more staff member at Hamilton schools have tested positive for COVID-19.
Twelve of the cases are at public schools, including three at R.A. Riddell Elementary School.
A letter from principal Doug Trimble says the school was notified about that the students were infected on Monday.
School administrators have notified all impacted families and staff members who are identified as a close contact, he wrote. [Public health] will not be declaring an outbreak within our school based on these cases.
Six more COVID-19 cases reported at Hamilton schools
Five more people in the local public school board and one more student in the Catholic board have tested positive for COVID-19.
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Posted: Dec 13, 2020 1:19 PM ET | Last Updated: December 13, 2020
There are more people with COVID-19 in both the public and catholic school boards in Hamilton. (David Donnelly/CBC) comments
Five more people in the local public school board and one more student in the Catholic board have tested positive for COVID-19.
One staff member at C.B. Stirling Elementary School was confirmed as having the virus on Friday, after a student had tested positive earlier in the week. There is no link between the cases, according to the school, so no outbreak has been declared.
Most new school-related COVID-19 cases in Hamilton deemed low risk
Of the seven new COVID-19 cases in Hamilton students and school staff on Wednesday and Thursday, only a few posed a risk to others in schools.
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2 staff and 2 students in Hamilton latest people to get the virus, according to local school boards
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Posted: Dec 11, 2020 1:56 PM ET | Last Updated: December 11, 2020
Hamilton schools have seen only a few COVID-19 cases that may have posed a risk to students and staff on Wednesday and Thursday(Bobby Hristova/CBC)
Another person at St. Mark Catholic Elementary School has tested positive for COVID-19 since an outbreak was declared a week ago.