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COVID-19 Today: School, child care cases for Newmarket, York Region, and Ontario

1st school case in Newmarket, a student at Sir William Mulock Secondary; York Region adds 5 school cases, totalling 36, with 22 schools under surveillance; Ontario reports 36 more school cases, totalling 483, at 318 schools
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Newmarket (reported Friday, Oct. 2, at 7 p.m.)

Schools

Licensed child care facilities

  • 0 child care centre cases
  • 0 child care centres closed

York Region (reported Friday, Oct. 2, at 7 p.m.)

Schools

  • 0 school outbreaks*
    • 8-day outbreak closed Sept. 30 at Blue Willow, Woodbridge
  • 0 schools closed
  • 36 (+5) total confirmed cases
  • 23 (+4) students
  • 13 (+1) staff/visitors
  • 29 (+4) schools under surveillance, 22 active**:
    • Sir William Mulock Secondary (1 student) in Newmarket
    • Cardinal Carter Catholic High (1 student) in Aurora 
    • St. Brigid (1 student); Stouffville District Secondary (1 staff) in Whitchurch-Stouffville
    • Holy Name (1 student) in King City
    • Sixteenth Avenue (2 students); Moraine Hills (1 student); Discovery Academy Private (1 staff); Bond Lake (1 staff); H.G. Bernard (1 staff) in Richmond Hill
    • Bayview Glen (1 staff); Stephen Lewis Secondary (1 student) in Thornhill
    • Coppard Glen (1 student); Bill Crothers Secondary (1 student) in Markham
    • Fossil Hill (1 student); Holy Cross Academy (1 staff); St. Michael the Archangel (1 staff); Our Lady of Fatima (+1 student, 1 staff) in Woodbridge
    • Nellie McClung (1 staff); Mackenzie Glen (1 student); in Maple
    • Pope Francis (1 staff); Kleinburg P.S. (1 student) in Kleinburg
  • 7 (+4) schools no longer under surveillance 
    • Carrville Mills (1 staff) in Thornhill
    • Maple High (1 student), Dr. Roberta Bondar (1 student) in Maple
    • Tommy Douglas Secondary (3 students)

*An outbreak is declared when 2 or more cases are confirmed within a 14-day period, with at least one case acquired in the school

**Schools with a laboratory-confirmed case that was not transmitted within the school 

Licensed child care facilities

  • 4 closed child care centre outbreaks*
  • 0 active outbreaks
  • 1 case child
  • 4 cases staff/visitors

*An outbreak is declared with one or more confirmed case in children or staff

Ontario (reported Friday, Oct. 2 at 10:30 a.m.):

Cases in schools

  • 483 (+36) school-related cases
  • 262 (+29) students; 84 (+2) staff
  • 137 (+5) individuals not identified (as student or staff) 
  • 318 (+12) of 4,828 schools with a case (6.59%)
  • 3 schools closed
    • Holy Cross in Kemptville (2 students, 1 staff)
    • Monsignor Paul Baxter in Ottawa (1 students, 2 staff)
    • Mason Road Junior in Toronto (2 students, 2 staff)

Cases in child care centres and homes

  • 156 (+12) cases at child care centres and homes
  • 87 (+8) children
  • 69 (+4) staff
  • 68 (+11) of 5,163 child care centres with current cases (1.32%)
  • 15 child care centres currently closed (.29%)

York Region Public Health reminds parents and guardians to check your child daily for symptoms of COVID-19. For more information and resources, including how to protect yourself and others, visit york.ca/SafeAtSchool
 
You can download Canada’s COVID Alert in Apple and Google app stores or visit ontario.ca/covidalert


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