Worries of more school disruptions are rising alongside COVID-19 cases – CBC
With restrictions easing in Canada, ‘there’s a lot of denial going on,’ a parent tells CBC News
Apr 06, 2022
As the spring weather improves, Montrealer Doug Bentley understands people feeling a pent-up desire to return to pre-pandemic normalcy. Still, as a parent with two kids attending elementary school, he remains “ill at ease” about classrooms amid COVID-19.
“I don’t feel particularly comfortable about the situation in the schools,” he said. “There’s a lot of denial going on about the sixth wave that has started.”
With capacity limits, mask mandates and other restrictions lingering in some areas but gone in others, Canadian regions remain in varying stages of easing pandemic mitigation measures. Yet as health experts warn again of rising new COVID-19 infection and hospitalization rates in parts of the country, parents and school officials are bracing for what a sixth wave may bring to classrooms.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/covid-sixth-wave-school-concerns-1.6408695
