Our ideal, bold target is 1,000 ppm, Education Minister Jean-Francois Roberge said about CO2 testing in classrooms. We are not reaching it everywhere, but we want to achieve it everywhere, so there is still a lot of work to be done. Photo by Jacques Boissinot /THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Air quality in Quebec’s schools isn’t ideal, but it is “acceptable and safe,” Education Minister Jean-François Roberge said on Tuesday.
Roberge was responding to the results of carbon dioxide tests carried out in nearly 15,000 classrooms amid worries about the spread of COVID-19 in schools.
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