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Ontario’s Education Minister Stephen Lecce wrote to parents on Sunday suggesting that in-person learning would resume in the province after the April school break.
Less than 24 hours later, Lecce was sitting next to Doug Ford as the province’s premier said the spread of COVID meant kids would stay home indefinitely.
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The premier blamed the speed at which new variants are spreading and the impact they are having on intensive care unit capacity, which is already close to 100 per cent in many regions.
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Ontario’s Education Minister Stephen Lecce wrote to parents on Sunday suggesting that in-person learning would resume in the province after the April school break.
Less than 24 hours later, Lecce was sitting next to Doug Ford as the province’s premier said the spread of COVID meant kids would stay home indefinitely.
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The premier blamed the speed at which new variants are spreading and the impact they are having on intensive care unit capacity, which is already close to 100 per cent in many regions.
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January 29, 2021
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Socialist Project As 2021 begins, many people in Manitoba are hopeful that the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us. The number of infections reported is falling. Effective vaccines have been approved and will eventually become widely available. Unfortunately, the pandemic is far from over and the worst could still lie ahead.
Manitoba, like most jurisdictions in Canada except the Atlantic provinces and Northern territories, is using a public-health strategy for responding to COVID-19 that hasn’t given us the protection and positive outcomes that we could have expected. This strategy – one of mitigation, to use the epidemiological term – has aimed to keep the virus from spreading so much that sick people overwhelm the hospital system.