With COVID-19 numbers increasing in the province, many parents are calling for mask mandates in schools. Health officials say “we’re not there yet.” Many parents in our area feel all students should be wearing masks in school.

Ontario’s health minister, Christine Elliott, says the province will implement new mask mandates If Ontario’s top doctor says it is necessary.

Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Kieran Moore says despite rising COVID numbers in Ontario, there aren’t a lot of children in ICU’s. “It’s important to put that into perspective for today, that there’s been no significant rise in the risk of children in the intensive care unit right now… In all of Ontario, 2.75 million children, there are two in the ICU.”

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