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“We’re already seeing increased exposures in our schools, so this just further exacerbates that situation and adds to that anxiety,” she said.
While mask-wearing rules at schools have been tightened recently, Waldron said she would like to see them even more stringent.
B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Teri Mooring said she doesn’t agree with the current directive, which requires masking for middle school and high school students when indoors, but not at their desks. Henry has said that’s the same as in offices or restaurants, but Mooring said students sit close together and the other environments don’t compare well with schools.
VANCOUVER Two schools in Courtenay and one in Campbell River have been added to Island Health s list of COVID-19 exposures in Vancouver Island schools. The exposures happened at Carihi Secondary School in Campbell River on Feb. 10, 11 and 16, at George P. Vanier Secondary in Courtenay on Feb. 16 and 17, and at Queneesh Elementary in Courtenay on Feb. 17. School District 72 in Campbell River said in a tweet on Thursday that contract tracing had been completed at Carihi Secondary and a physical education class had been asked to self-isolate until March 2. School District 71 in the Comox Valley does not appear to have made any public statements about the exposures in the two Courtenay schools.