COVID-19 outbreak declared at St. Eugene Catholic Elementary School in Hamilton
Hamilton is dealing with its fourth school outbreak in a week after declaring one at St. Eugene Catholic Elementary School on Tuesday.
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Hamilton s Catholic school board is dealing with 3 outbreaks, while the public board is managing 1
Posted: Feb 24, 2021 8:20 AM ET | Last Updated: February 24
Four Hamilton schools are dealing with an COVID-19 outbreak.(Ina Fassbender/AFP/Getty Images)
The Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board is dealing with its third COVID-19 outbreak after declaring one at St. Eugene Catholic Elementary School on Tuesday.
That s four outbreaks in Hamilton schools in one week.
Posted: Feb 12, 2021 10:16 AM ET | Last Updated: February 12
Hamilton schools will begin asymptomatic testing for staff and students.(Bobby Hristova/CBC)
Asymptomatic students and staff from two in Hamilton will be offered targeted, rapid COVID-19 testing on Saturday.
Hamilton Public Health Services says Bishop Ryan Catholic Secondary School (1824 Rymal Rd. E.) and Orchard Park Secondary School (200 Dewitt Rd.) will offer the testing from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Only students and staff from both of these schools can receive the testing. Also, asymptomatic students and staff from Eastdale Elementary School and Winona Elementary School can get tested at Orchard Park. These areas were identified as neighbourhoods where the uptake of testing is low, COVID-19 rates are higher and there has been a history of school outbreak, the city said in a media release.
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.
Hamilton sees school COVID-19 cases as Ontario hints at full-remote learning in 2021
Ten students and one staff member in Hamilton have tested positive for COVID-19, the third double-digit day for school-related infections in the city. The province also said families and school boards should be prepared in case they begin January classes fully remote.
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Posted: Dec 17, 2020 8:42 AM ET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020
Hamilton schools continue to see COVID-19 cases, and the province told families and school boards to be prepared for a potential pivot to full-remote learning.(Bobby Hristova/CBC)
Ten students and one staff member in Hamilton have tested positive for COVID-19, the third double-digit day for school-related infections in the city.
Six more COVID-19 cases reported at Hamilton schools
Five more people in the local public school board and one more student in the Catholic board have tested positive for COVID-19.
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Posted: Dec 13, 2020 1:19 PM ET | Last Updated: December 13, 2020
There are more people with COVID-19 in both the public and catholic school boards in Hamilton. (David Donnelly/CBC) comments
Five more people in the local public school board and one more student in the Catholic board have tested positive for COVID-19.
One staff member at C.B. Stirling Elementary School was confirmed as having the virus on Friday, after a student had tested positive earlier in the week. There is no link between the cases, according to the school, so no outbreak has been declared.