1:09"The infections that children get are typically from their close contacts, and their closest contacts are their household contacts," Etches said. Public health officials will be looking more closely at absenteeism reports to determine whether numerous students from the same classroom are home sick, and whether those children have been tested for COVID-19. Dr. Vera Etches said public health officials anticipate any COVID-19 cases that crop up this fall will have originated outside the school rather than from a classmate. (Skype)Unlike other institutions where an outbreak is declared if there's a single positive COVID-19 case, schools have to meet a different bar. With provincial funding, OPH also plans to add another 36 nurses to its roster of school health teams.

Source: CBC News August 11, 2020 21:56 UTC