Ontario elementary and secondary students will not be returning to class in-person anywhere in the province before September 2021, Premier Doug Ford confirmed Wednesday.
After weeks of encouragement from the outgoing chief medical officer of health, a collaborative of epidemiologists and most local medical officers of health to return some or all schools to in-person learning in June, Ford said it just wasn’t worth it.
He said consultations with health experts over the past five days couldn’t give him the certainty he wanted.
“Here’s what the experts couldn’t say, they couldn’t say whether returning to in class learning without more vaccinations would not add thousands of new COVID-19 cases,” Ford said Wednesday.
“The experts couldn’t tell us that it wouldn’t spread dangerous variants and keep us from moving to other stages. As your premier, these aren’t risks I am willing to take.”
Schools in Toronto, Guelph and Peel Region closed in early April, with the rest of the province joining them after the “April Break” week.
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