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With the winter break approaching, there is concern families won t abide by public health recommendations and will gather during the holidays. People do gather around that Christmas holiday . We would have people potentially coming back to school who may have engaged in a gathering larger than you re supposed to, increasing the risk [to others] and they would be asymptomatic, so it wouldn t necessarily be caught by screening, Danko said.
Education Minister Stephen Lecce said in a statement on Friday afternoon that as we continue to see increased rates of community transmission, our schools remain safe. To put this into perspective eight out of ten schools in this province have no active COVID-19 cases at all and 99.66 per cent of students have never reported a case of COVID-19, he said.
COVID-19 outbreak at Shalom Village in Hamilton sees 24 new cases, 1 more death
The outbreak at Shalom Village Nursing Home in Hamilton has grown by 24 COVID-19 cases as other outbreaks also continue to see the virus spread.
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Hamilton saw 55 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, a break from the recent surge seen in the past few days
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Shalom Village s outbreak has infected 72 people as of Tuesday. (Supplied by Renee Guder)
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A second staff member at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Elementary School has tested positive for COVID-19.(Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Elementary School/Facebook)
Two Catholic schools in Hamilton have reported second cases of COVID-19, but administrators say public health officials have yet to determine a link between them, so an outbreak has not been declared.
The cases at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Elementary School and St. Patrick Catholic Elementary School were two of seven cases recorded at schools in the city on Sunday.
A second staff member at Immaculate Heart of Mary, who was last in the building on Dec. 8, has tested positive.