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

1 student case active in Newmarket; 6 more student cases in York Region, with 5 more schools under surveillance, in Whitchurch-Stouffville, Markham, Woodbridge, Maple; Ontario reports 74 more school cases, totalling 611, at 347 schools

Newmarkettoday.ca
October 7, 2020

Newmarket (reported Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 5 p.m.)

Schools

• 1 school-related case
• Sir William Mulock Secondary School (1 student)
• 0 schools closed

Licensed child care facilities

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

Schools

• 0 school outbreaks*
• 8-day outbreak closed Sept. 30 at Blue Willow, Woodbridge
• 0 schools closed
• 48 (+6) total confirmed cases
• 36 (+6) students
• 12 staff/visitors
• 40 (+5) schools under surveillance, 32 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
• 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
• 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); Stonebridge (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

 
8 schools no longer under surveillance

*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 Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 10:30 a.m.):

Cases in schools

• 611 (+74) school-related cases
• 333 (+41) students; 102 (+10) staff
• 176 (+23) individuals not identified (as student or staff)
• 347 (+12) of 4,828 schools with a case (7.19%)
• 1 case at the York Catholic District School Board office
• 2 (-1) schools closed
• Holy Cross in Kemptville (2 students, 1 staff)
• Monsignor Paul Baxter in Ottawa (1 students, 2 staff)
• Outbreak resolved Oct. 5 at Mason Road Junior in Toronto (2 students, 2 staff)

Cases in child care centres and homes

• 187 (+17) cases at child care centres and homes
• 110 (+12) children
• 77 (+5) staff
• 88 (+12) of 5,183 child care centres with current cases (1.7%)
• 20 (+3) child care centres currently closed (.39%)

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