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Starting Wednesday, Ontario high school students will have to confirm they have completed a daily checklist of COVID-19 symptoms that would bar them from attending school.
The requirement is one of the new measures Education Minister Stephen Lecce introduced to make schools safer as they reopen to in-person learning across the province.
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Students or parents on their behalf have been asked to conduct the daily COVID-19 screening test since schools opened last fall.
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health is reporting 26 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19, and one additional person has died. According to OPH s COVID-19 dashboard, there have been 13,759 total laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa since the pandemic began and 428 residents have lost their lives. Across the province, health officials reported 1,072 new cases of COVID-19 in Ontario, along with 41 new deaths and 1,709 newly resolved cases. The stay-at-home order for Ontario has ended in some parts of eastern Ontario. The health units of Hastings Prince Edward, Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington (KFL&A), and Renfrew County and District (RCDHU) have moved into the Green-Prevent level under Ontario s colour-coded framework as of 12:01 a.m. The province reported four new cases of COVID-19 in Hastings Prince Edward, two new cases in the KFL&A health unit and zero new cases in the RCDHU on Wednesday.
OTTAWA Ottawa Public Health says 73 more people in Ottawa have tested positive for COVID-19 and two more people have died. There were 1,489 new cases reported across Ontario. The province also reported 22 new deaths provincewide and 1,937 newly resolved cases of COVID-19. The province reported 57 new cases in Ottawa. Case counts from the province and from Ottawa Public Health differ due to different data collection times. Ottawa had been seeing a downward trend in COVID-19 cases in the past two weeks, with rolling averages dropping. However, in Sunday s update some rolling averages increased slightly. OPH s COVID-19 dashboard shows that there have been 13,670 total laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa since the pandemic began and 424 residents have died.