An elementary faculty in Mississauga is the primary within the metropolis to have closed a classroom this month as a result of a baby — who is probably going too younger to be vaccinated — having COVID-19.
The Peel District Faculty Board’s COVID-19 advisory web page exhibits {that a} classroom has been closed at Burnhamthorpe Public Faculty in Mississauga after one scholar was confirmed to have coronavirus. Burnhamthorpe’s enrolment ranges from junior kindergarten to Grade 5, making it extraordinarily unlikely that the kid had obtained any vaccination. The cutoff is a 2009 birthdate, which is usually Grade 7 age.
The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District Faculty Board (DPCDSB) has one reported case in Mississauga, with a employees member at St. Sofia elementary faculty (3540 Havenwood Dr.). It has not closed any school rooms there, in keeping with the board’s neighborhood advisory tracker.
One elementary classroom within the DPCDSB is closed, at St. Cornelius elementary in Caledon East. One scholar examined constructive.
A employees member at St. Michael Catholic Secondary Faculty in Bolton has additionally examined constructive.
The Ontario Ministry of Schooling, together with boards of schooling and public well being items, have affirmed that their joint plan is to maintain faculties open as a lot as potential throughout the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Quickly switching a cohort to distant studying after a COVID-19 case has been talked about as the choice. College students are anticipated to finish a each day screening earlier than every new schoolday.
Questions have been raised by politicians and instructor teams about class sizes, significantly for school rooms full of scholars who’re required to put on masks however are too younger to be vaccinated. The mRNA vaccines have solely been accepted to be given to kids who’re least 12 years outdated, though Ontario has barely prolonged eligibility to anybody with a 2009 birthdate.
Fast antigen testing has not been made out there to varsities within the public system. They have been provided, at taxpayer expense, to college students at personal faculties. Nevertheless, the workplace of Schooling Minister Stephen Lecce stated late on Friday afternoon that the coverage can be reversed after the CP24 tv station aired a report about it.
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