Ontario has announced plans to reopen schools this fall, answering that question for many parents and students, but now parents are grappling with other questions about how to navigate this while keeping their kids and communities safe from Covid-19.
MONTREAL—Quebec’s updated back-to-school plan requires students in Grade 5 and up to wear masks in all common areas of school buildings, except classrooms.
NYON, SWITZERLAND—Dinamo Zagreb’s path back to the Champions League group stage will start away to Cluj or Floriana in the second qualifying round draw made Monday by UEFA.
As a funding dispute with the province intensifies, Ontario optometrists are redirecting patients to emergency departments, part of a negotiation tactic costing the public health system $250,000 a day.
THE GOAL: To run upwards of 10,000 COVID-19 tests daily — and perhaps significantly more — by repurposing an existing “ultra-high-throughput” next-generation genome sequencing platform. The tests would be in addition to Ontario’s current laboratory capacity.
On April 17, a worker punched in for duty at FGF Brands, an industrial bakery in Toronto that has supplied flatbreads and muffins to major corporations like Loblaws and Walmart. At the time, Ontario’s COVID-19 epidemic was raging and all eyes were on the long-term care crisis.
The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Monday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.