Ontario’s Science Advisory Table will not make a formal recommendation on if and when to reintroduce mandatory masking in schools due to what it says is a “lack of consensus” on the topic.
The Ford government lifted the mask mandate in most settings, including schools, in March and has for far refused to entertain hypothetical questions around whether it could be revived amid a resurgence of COVID-19 infections.
In its report, the science table said that “schools should still be mask-friendly environments” regardless of whether or not there is a mandate. The positivity rate over the last seven days was 13.22 per cent, compared to 13.54 per cent at this time last week.Public Health Ontario has said that case rates are currently decreasing in 19 of the province’s 34 public health units, including Toronto.
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