Ontario’s publicly-funded school boards are reporting a week-over-week increase in active cases of COVID-19 for the first time in more than a month as the recent rise in infections in the broader community now appears to be spilling over into the public school system.
The Ministry of Education says that there were 119 new school-related cases confirmed over a 24-hour period ending Tuesday afternoon, up from 89 cases during the same time-period last week.
Of the active cases 575 are linked to schools in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. That is up from 490 last Tuesday. Over the last week Ontario’s rolling seven-day average of new lab-confirmed infections has risen 32 per cent and the Ontario Science Advisory Table is now warning that case counts will double every 15 days if we continue along our current trajectory.
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