Ontario’s Education Minister Steven Lecce will hold a news conference this afternoon, about next week’s planned return to in-person classes at schools across the province.
Teachers province wide are calling for more COVID-19 testing, tracing and monitoring among other measures, to ensure a safe return to schools.
Just five days before the return of in class learning, less than 4% of kids in the province aged 5 to 11, have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
Chair of the Toronto Board of Health, Joe Cressy, says clinics will run in schools and neighbourhoods with lower vaccine uptake, with boosters offered to parents and education workers.
There are 9,783 new cases of Covid-19 in Ontario today.
The seven-day rolling average of patients with COVID-19 in ICU is 411.
Wellington Dufferin Guelph Public Health has reported 58 new cases in Dufferin County, and 344 active cases.
