Coronavirus: What’s happening in Canada and around the world Thursday – CBC

N.S. premier says case numbers declining but progress ‘is slower than we would like

May 20, 2021

Kindergarten to Grade 12 students across most of Alberta will head back to class next week, officials said Wednesday. Meanwhile, in Nova Scotia, students learned they won’t be back in classrooms at all to finish the school year.

Alberta Education Minister Adriana LaGrange said students in the Municipality of Wood Buffalo, which includes Fort McMurray, won’t head back right away. They’re expected to continue with remote learning until at least the end of May.

But in the rest of the province, students and teachers will be back, LaGrange said, citing a successful “reset” that she said “helped to alleviate the operational pressures tied to the rise of COVID-19 cases in our communities.”

Twelve per cent of all Alberta teachers and students had been self-isolating due to COVID-19 exposure and over 6,000 positive cases had been identified before the break; now, only 2.2 per cent are isolating and cases sit at just over 1,000.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/coronavirus-covid19-canada-world-may20-2021-1.6033733

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