RECENT EVENTS:
On Tuesday morning at 7:30 a.m., Camille Williams-Taylor, director of education at OCDSB, talks to CBC’s Ottawa Morning to answer the many questions parents and academics have about back-to-school.
Williams-Taylor sent a letter to late parents Monday, saying that school in person would be behind for a week for elementary students.
Like any other fall, emotional scenes take place on Ottawa’s college and school campuses when parents leave their children to begin their postsecondary careers.
For many, this is the first time they’ve been away from home, with all the nervous anticipation they can bring.This year, there is one more concern: the pandemic.
The Central East Catholic School Board is delaying the start of school for some of the school’s top academics and those who will be briefly informed until September 8.More academics are coming back on Thursday.
The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board has announced that the in-person school will begin on September 8 at the earliest for top academics and September 14 for elementary school students.Distance students will begin the course until September 18.
The Ottawa Catholic School Board (BCSO) also delayed the return to school, distributing it between Thursday and September 15, depending on the class, and its start date for online learning remains unchanged.
In a letter to parents, the High Canada District School Board (UCDSB) stated that once the school year begins, it may no longer be conceivable for students to transfer between classroom and e-learning due to high demand.
The council has implemented a three-day start-up on 9/11.
In western Quebec, the forums of Draveurs, Hauts-Bois-de-l’Outaouais and Coeur-des-Vallées have resumed classes. The fourth French forum, Portages-de-l’Outaouais, begins today.
There have been 2,967 cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa since the start of the pandemic: 218 known active cases, 2,483 resolved cases and a total of 266 disease-related deaths.
Overall, public fitness reported more than 4,500 cases in eastern Ontario and western Quebec, of which more than 3,800 were resolved.
COVID-19 killed 102 other people in Ottawa’s outdoor domain: another 52 people died in Leeds, Grenville and Lanark counties, 33 in Ottawa and 17 in other parts of eastern Ontario.
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.
The Canadian Nature Museum reopens five days a week from Saturday.Visitors must perform an ebook one hour in advance and print or take a screenshot of a drawing.
Quebec has reopening 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 such as running from home, gathering other people outdoors as much as you can imagine and staying away from anyone you don’t live with or have in your circle, adding when dressed 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.
The masks are also outdoors when you can’t stay at the right distance from others.
Anyone who has recently traveled to outside Canada will have to isolate themselves for at least 14 days.In Ontario, it’s the same age of isolation for anyone with symptoms.
Most people with a proven case of COVID-19 in Quebec may end their self-isolation after 10 days if they have not had a fever for at least 48 hours and have not had other symptoms for at least 24 hours.
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 unusual symptoms come with chills, headaches and pink eyes.Children would possibly expand a rash.
If you have severe symptoms, call 911.
In Ontario:
In Ottawa, any resident who feels they want a test, even if they don’t 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 Kongston, 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.
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 check in or if they have a physical condition problem similar to COVID-19 or not.
It is being tested in communities this week by appointment.
In western Quebec:
Citizens of Ottawa can now visit Gatineau five days a week at 135 Blvd.Saint-Raymond and recurring clinics through appointments 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 a state of emergency, instituted 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.isolate for 14 days.
Anyone from Tyendinaga interested in a 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 plans to start opening schools and day care centers next month.
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