Toronto: Students in the largest province of Canada will return to Monday’s classrooms, and teachers and staff will be given N95 masks that are not right, officials confirm Wednesday.
The provincial government said earlier this month that online learning will run to at least January 17 because of a surge in infection with the Omicron variant of Coronavirus.
Ontario students have spent more time studying online during pandemics than their colleagues elsewhere in Canada and the US.
Intario Education Minister Stephen Lecce confirmed students will return to the classroom Monday after the report appeared earlier this week.
Students and staff at Otario school each will eventually get two quick tests to use if they develop Covid-19 symptoms.
Officials say parents will not be notified of the outbreak in their children’s school until there are 30% level of absence between staff and students.
The government then clarified that starting January 24, the number of daily cases in schools will be available online, but said parents will be notified by email only if the school exceeds 30% absent.
The Canadian government, meanwhile, resigned from the vaccine mandate for Canadian truck drivers three days before being set to apply.
Ottawa announced in mid-November that the truck driver crossing to Canada needs to be fully vaccinated on Saturday.
But on Wednesday night, the spokesman for the Ministry of Transportation Rebecca Purdy said that the Canadian truck driver did not need to quarantine if they were not vaccinated or only received a dose.
The new rules will still apply this weekend for American truck drivers, which will be rejected at the border unless they have been vaccinated.