Virtual school is back in session across Ontario today. Students in northern Ontario — and elementary students in southern Ontario — will learn remotely this week. High schoolers in southern Ontario will attend school online until January 25th. It’s part of the provincewide lockdown that came into effect on Boxing Day.
The province recorded another 29-hundred-64 cases of COVID-19 yesterday. That’s a slight decrease from Saturday’s record-high 33-hundred-63 diagnoses. There have now been a total of 190-thousand-962 cases of COVID-19 across the province, with 46-hundred-50 deaths.
A third of Ontario’s long-term care homes are currently experiencing outbreaks of COVID-19. There are now 207 facilities in outbreak — out of a total of 626 — which the Ministry of Long-Term Care says is a record. But it notes the scope of the outbreaks is not as bad as it was during the pandemic’s first wave. A spokeswoman says there are currently one-thousand-140 cases of COVID-19 among long-term care residents, compared to two-thousand-538 at the peak of the first wave in May.
