OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health wrapped up a fourth weekend of rapid COVID-19 testing blitzes targeting Ottawa s schools, on the eve of new requirements for asymptomatic testing of students and staff in schools. Starting Monday, school boards in Ontario will be required to conduct asymptomatic testing of staff and students in at least five per cent of schools within their jurisdiction every week. Education Minister Stephen Lecce tells CTV News Ottawa that while COVID-19 rates are low in schools right now, it s important to keep layers of protection in place. The first is the necessity to keep our guard up, because we re doing something right. I think parents, quite obviously, are helping to limit congregation of their kids, which is following our stricter protocol, said Lecce in an interview with CTV News at Six anchor Stefan Keyes.
WOOD RIVER JCT. â The pandemic has impacted almost every Chariho activity, including the districtâs 10th annual Shakespeare Competition. But as everyone in the performing arts knows, the show must go on, so the competition took place virtually last Thursday.
Four students competed this year and a team of judges chose a winner based on each studentâs score.Â
Mya Card, a junior, sophomore Isaiah Planck, junior Christian Sullivan and freshman Regan Clark each presented a monologue from a Shakespeare play as well as a sonnet.
English teacher and Shakespeare Club adviser Sandra Laub hosted the event.
âWe have rehearsed and prepared for this day in accordance with the guidelines set forth by the English-speaking Union, a 100-year-old national organization,â she said. âWhat a strange and genius adaptation this year has been for everybody, and I want to thank those students, all four of you, for joining us in this unusual year in Shakespeare.â
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The February 10 survey reveals 895 outbreaks under active investigation and 2,806 considered resolved, for a total of 3,701 over the course of the pandemic. That s an increase of 124 in the week since our February 3 update, which totaled 3,577 outbreaks (924 active, 2,653 resolved).
This bump came despite a continuing decline in the number of nursing homes and assisted living centers experiencing outbreaks. The health-care category led these lists for months, but on February 3, it fell behind outbreaks at K-12 schools an indication that vaccinations of residents and staffers at such facilities, who began receiving inoculations in December, are having a positive effect. On February 10, fifteen health-care operations joined the outbreaks roster, up from eleven on February 3 but only ten are identified as specializing in senior services, and half of those outbreaks actually date back weeks, likely due to a lag in communication between local and state public-health agencies.