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

Newmarket holds at 1 school case; no outbreaks, with 51 cases at 43 schools under surveillance in York Region; 111 more school cases in Ontario, totalling 722 cases at 379 schools
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Newmarket (reported Wednesday, Oct. 7, at 5 p.m.)

Schools

Licensed child care facilities

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

York Region (reported Wednesday, Oct. 7, at 5 p.m.)

Schools

  • 0 school outbreaks*
    • 8-day outbreak closed Sept. 30 at Blue Willow, Woodbridge
  • 0 schools closed
  • 51 (+3) total confirmed cases
  • 38 (+2) students
  • 13 (+1) staff/visitors
  • 43 (+3) schools under surveillance, 34 active**:
    • Sir William Mulock Secondary (1 student) in Newmarket
    • Cardinal Carter Catholic High (1 student) in Aurora 
    • Wendat Village (1 student); Glad Park (1 student); St. Brigid (1 student, 1 classroom closed); Stouffville District Secondary (1 staff) in Whitchurch-Stouffville
    • King City Secondary (1 student); Holy Name (1 student, 1 classroom closed) in King City
    • Richmond Hill High (1 student); Bayview Hill (1 staff); Moraine Hills (1 student); Discovery Academy Private (1 staff); Bond Lake (1 staff); H.G. Bernard (1 staff) in Richmond Hill
    • Baythorn (1 student); Carrville Mills (2nd investigation, 1 student); St. Michael Catholic Academy (1 student, 1 classroom closed); Bayview Glen (1 staff); Stephen Lewis Secondary (1 student) in Thornhill
    • Markham District High (1 student); Stonebridge (1 student); Legacy (1 student); Pierre Elliott Trudeau High (1 student), Coppard Glen (1 student); Bill Crothers Secondary (1 student) in Markham
    • Guardian Angels (1 student); Fossil Hill (1 student); Holy Cross Academy (1 staff); Our Lady of Fatima (3 students, 2 classrooms closed) in Woodbridge
    • St. Cecilia (1 student, 1 classroom closed); Nellie McClung (1 staff); Mackenzie Glen (1 student); in Maple
    • Pope Francis (1 staff); Kleinburg P.S. (1 student) in Kleinburg
  •  9 (+1) schools no longer under surveillance
    • 5-day surveillance closed Oct. 6 at Sixteenth Avenue P.S., Richmond Hill (2 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 Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 10:30 a.m.):

Cases in schools

  • 722 (+111) school-related cases
  • 402 (+69) students; 117 (+15) staff
  • 203 (+27) individuals not identified (as student or staff) 
  • 379 (+32) of 4,828 schools with a case (7.85%)
  • 1 case at the York Catholic District School Board office
  • 2 schools closed
    • Holy Cross in Kemptville (2 students, 1 staff)
    • Monsignor Paul Baxter in Ottawa (1 students, 2 staff)

Cases in child care centres and homes

  • 210 (+23) cases at child care centres and homes
  • 124 (+14) children
  • 86 (+) staff
  • 101 (+13) of 5,187 child care centres with current cases (1.95%)
  • 23 (+3) child care centres currently closed (.44%)

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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