Ontario will stop reporting COVID-19 cases in schools and child-care settings, prompting criticism from the opposition New Democratic Party, which called the move "terrifying for parents."
Summary
- Ontario will stop reporting COVID-19 cases in schools and child-care settings, memos from the Ministry of Education say, prompting criticism from the opposition New Democratic Party, which called the move “terrifying for parents.”
- The changes come as record-breaking COVID numbers strain public health resources.
- Colin Furness, an infection control epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto, has written a letter to Toronto Public Health and Peel Public Health asking them to delay school openings for 13 school days.
- (University of Toronto)Furness has now written a letter to Toronto Public Health and Peel Public Health asking them to delay school openings for 13 school days.
- Peel Public Health confirmed receipt of Furness’s letter but said no additional local measures are under consideration.