Alberta Medical Director of Health announced 418 new cases of COVID-19 and 3 outbreaks on Monday, adding one in Edmonton.
Ross Sheppard High School is home to the first COVID-19 outbreak at a school in Edmonton. An outbreak is explained through Alberta Health as having two cases in a school and being contagious within 14 days. Deena Hinshaw said the bar had been lowered to claim that an outbreak involved the virus.
“It’s a very careful use of the term, ” said Hinshaw. “As soon as a small number of cases are identified, all precautions are put into practice within a school. “
Wendy King’s 16-year-old daughter transferred to Ross Sheppard before this year for grade 11 on Monday.
King said he had any idea what the school was having.
“(They’re) almost like little fires that are coming up and they have to chase those little fires and put them out,” he said. “I don’t know how long () I can keep painting seven days a week for this. “
Edmonton Public Schools spokeswoman Megan Normandeau said in an email that a ross Sheppard case known over the weekend is not similar to a case announced last week. He said there were about 53 academics and two school staff members who wanted to isolate themselves.
Normandeau also claimed that there is a case at Westmount High School in which 22 eighth graders and five members have to isolate themselves; one person from Parkview School tested positive and 46 seventh graders and six members should be isolated.
Center High and Vimy Ridge tested positive for being connected to their schools. There are 33 adult academics and one Center High staff member who want to isolate themselves and 57 ninth graders at Vimy Ridge and 4 staff members who want to isolate themselves.
“All schools have contacted affected students and families and are making arrangements for learning aids, while students must isolate themselves at home,” Normandeau said.
Edmonton Catholic Schools spokeswoman Lori Nagy showed that a case had been shown in the following schools since last Thursday: San Edmundo, Santísima Trinidad, San Justin, Santa Catalina and San José.
A total of 34 other people in these schools are isolated by themselves.
On Monday, there were a total of nine Catholic schools in Edmonton with at least one case and 62 other self-aised people.
Hinshaw said there were a total of 42 known cases in 35 schools when they were infectious and that none of the cases had extended school attendance.
Hinshaw also announced two outbreaks Monday in the Calgary area.
Alberta’s Deputy Minister of Education Andre Corbould said there have been 2,380 schools open and a record lately.
Alberta Teachers Association spokesman Jonathan Teghtmeyer said teachers want schools to open, but they want to make sure this happens.
“As long as the number of instances of the network remains high, instances will continue to arrive at school gates. Therefore, the challenge is that schools, school divisions, the government, and everyone involved in the school sector will prevent those individual instances from spreading to the school site,” he said.
Hinshaw said 105 cases were known in the province last Friday, 173 on Saturday and Sunday. During the same period, 46,127 tests were carried out.
The number of active instances in the province is 1,538. Lately Edmonton has a maximum of 654 active instances.
There have been 15,833 displayed cases of COVID-19 in Alberta since the start of the pandemic and another 14,041 people have recovered. There are 37 other people in the hospital with COVID-19, seven of whom are in intensive care.
Hinshaw announced a new COVID-19-related death over the weekend, with an age of 60 in the Edmonton domain bringing the total death toll to 254.
Across the country, there are 7,057 active cases, according to Health Canada figures. Worldwide, there have been 28,918,900 cases shown and 922,252 deaths, the World Health Organization reports.
– With Jeff Labine
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