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As Ontario announced the province’s third stay-at-home order and state of emergency, 48 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed within the Eastern Ontario Health Unit region on Wednesday afternoon.
The provincial measures will go into effect starting at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday. For more information, see related coverage.
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Of the 48 new cases within the EOHU posted Wednesday, 18 are in Cornwall, four in the northern portion of Akwesasne, one in South Glengarry, two in North Glengarry, four in South Stormont, two in North Stormont, one in South Dundas, two in Casselman, three in The Nation, six in Hawkesbury, and one in Alfred & Plantagenet. The health unit removed one case from the running total in East Hawkesbury. The overall running total of confirmed cases now sits at 3,614.
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The consolidation of Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School and St. Lawrence Secondary School is still underway.
The brand-new $39-million facility will include grades seven through 12, but has made little headway since its funding announcement in the spring of 2017 by the Upper Canada District School Board. A letter home to parents this past week assured them the project was still going ahead.
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“Parents need to know that the UCDSB is still committed to a new 7-12 state-of-the-art school to serve our students. In the meantime we will operate both St. Lawrence and CCVS as usual,” said David McDonald, the trustee for the two schools.
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“Even though we have no intention to close schools right now, in any of our thoughts, we decided what we’d like to do is take out the accommodation review from the policy,” Cram explained. “And therefore refer [the policy] back to the accommodation review guidelines whenever the ministry [of Education] publishes them. Anytime a school board reviews or modifies its school closure plan, the proposed changes are made available for public comment. That commenting period was in fall 2020.
“We did not receive any objections or negative comments about the changes to the school policy,” Cram told the board.