RECENT EVENTS:
Ottawa Public Health (OPH) reported new instances of COVID-19 on Wednesday and listed 8 more instances as resolved. Twelve patients are hospitalized lately.
On Wednesday, Ontario reported 88 new COVID-19 instances, however, 115 instances are reported to be resolved.
Ottawa City Council has expanded its mandatory mask regulations to require everyone to cover their mouths, nose and chin in non-unusual spaces of apartment buildings and condominiums, adding hallways and elevators.
Teachers on the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board say they are still waiting for data on the courses they will teach next month and what are the expectations for course delivery in the middle of the pandemic.
OBSERVING Ottawa School Board asks for smaller classrooms in COVID-19 hotspots
The Nunavut Department of Health stated that he was informed that a staff member of the Residence Inn on Walkley Road tested positive for COVID-19. The hotel is one of the isolation centers where the citizens of Nunavut will have to be quarantined before returning home to prevent diseases in the territory.
In a letter to parents, the Upper Canada District School Board stated that once the school year begins, “it may not be possible” for students to transfer between e-learning and e-learning.
The board said that in the past it had planned to allow this to happen at specific intervals, but after the “unforeseen interest in distance education,” it is now reconsidering.
Approximately 20% of the council’s student population chose distance education. Parents now have until Friday at nine a.m. to touch schools and replace their resolution on their learning model.
The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board has delayed the start of the categories until September 8.
Administrators also rejected the proposal to require a mask for younger students, voting instead to inspire use in young people from kindergarten through third grade. Fourth through twelfth graders will have to wear mask inside, adding hallways and classrooms.
The Ottawa Catholic School Board (BSO) also delayed his return to school. Kindergarten through third grade and seventh grade students will begin on September 8. Children in fourth through sixth grade, as well as eighth grade, will begin on September 9. High school students will be divided into two separate cohorts, Group A from September 1four and Group B on 15 September.
The OCSB online learning start date remains unchanged.
Quebec updated its school plans in early August, adding that the mask is mandatory in hallways for fifth graders onwards.
OBSERVING Here’s Why Some Parents in Ottawa Send Their Kids to School
There have been 2,871 cases shown of COVID-19 in Ottawa since the start of the pandemic, with 174 active cases and 2,431 cases resolved. There were 266 disease-related deaths in Ottawa.
Overall, public fitness reported more than 4,400 cases in eastern Ontario and western Quebec, of which more than 3,700 were resolved.
COVID-19 killed 102 other people in the domain outside Ottawa.
As of August 26, another 52 people were killed in Leeds, Grenville and Lanark counties. In addition, another 17 people died in other parts of eastern Ontario and 33 in Ottawa.
Ottawa is in Stage 3 of Ontario’s reopening plan, where more businesses are open, adding restaurants and movie theaters.
Indoor meetings of up to 50 others and outdoor meetings of up to a hundred are now allowed in this province, however, participants must adhere to physical distance guidelines.
Quebec has rules, with its limit on physically remote meetings in public places of up to 250 people, allowing for smaller festivals.
The new coronavirus is basically transmitted through droplets when an inflamed user coughs or sneezes over another user or object. People don’t want the symptoms to be contagious.
This means physical distance measures like running from home, gathering other people outdoors as much as you can imagine and staying away from anyone you don’t live with or haven’t been near you, adding when you dress in a mask.
Masks are now mandatory in public places closed to eastern Ontario and Quebec, where transit officials and taxi drivers must now deny access to users over the age of 12 who refuse to wear one.
OBSERVE Ottawa City Council extends mask requirement until October
The masks are also outdoors when you can’t stay at the right distance from others.
Anyone with symptoms or who has recently traveled outside Canada will have to isolate themselves for at least 14 days.
The Ontario Medical Director of Health strongly recommends self-isolation for others with weakened immune systems and OPH recommends that others over the age of 70 stay home as much as possible.
COVID-19 can range from a cold-type illness to a severe lung infection, with non-unusual symptoms such as fever, dry cough, vomiting and loss of taste or smell.
Less common symptoms come with chills, headaches and pink eyes. Children would possibly expand a rash.
If you have any symptoms, call 911.
In Ontario:
In Ottawa, any resident who feels they want a test, even if they have symptoms, can do so at one of the 3 sites.
Inuit in Ottawa can call the Akausivik Inuit Family Health Team at 613-740-0999 for services, exams, inuktitut or English Monday through Friday.
In the East Ontario Office of Health area, there is a self-service center in Casselman that can take care of two hundred tests a day and assessment centers in Hawkesbury and Winchester that do not require others to call ahead.
Others in Alexandria, Rockland and Cornwall require an appointment.
In Kingston, Leon’s Center is the city’s headquarters. Meet him at gate two.
The Napanee Verification Center is open to others who call to make an appointment.
You can set up an account in Bancroft, Belleville or Trenton by calling downtown and Picton SMS or call.
The Leeds, Grenville, and Lanark unit asks you to get tested if you have any symptoms or considerations of exposure.
He has a walk-in at Brockville at Memorial Center and checks in Smiths Falls and Almonte that require an appointment.
This week there are clinics in five communities in Renfrew County.
Residents call their circle of family physicians and those who do not have access to a family circle doctor can call 1-844-727-6404 to register and receive a check or if they have physical fitness problems similar to COVID-19 or not.
In western Quebec:
Citizens of Ottawa can now visit Gatineau five days a week on 135 Blvd. Saint-Raymond and recurrent clinics by appointment in communities such as Gracefield, Val-des-Monts and Fort-Coulonge.
You can call 1-877-644-4545 to schedule an appointment or if you have any questions.
In mid-August, waiting times for effects were longer here than in other regions of Quebec.
First Nations:
Local communities have declared states of emergency, put in a curfew or both.
Akwesasne had 14 cases of COVID-19. Most are similar to a collection on an island with a non-resident who showed symptoms at the time.
It has a COVID-19 cell verification site that can be obtained by appointment only. Anyone who returns to the network on the Canadian side of the outer border and is more than 160 kilometers away, or in Montreal, for non-essential reasons, is invited to isolate themselves for 14 days.
Anyone interested in Tyendinaga can call 613-967-3603 to speak with a nurse. Face masks are now mandatory in their public buildings.
Pikwakanagan residents can make an appointment for a COVID-19 by calling 613-625-2259.
Kitigan Zibi is making plans for the August 29 election with adjustments according to the status of the pandemic at the time. He plans to start opening schools and day care centers next month.
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