Ontario to Expand Asymptomatic Testing to Schools Province-Wide

Children get off the school bus as schools reopen with measures in place to prevent the spread of the CCP virus in Vernon Bridge, Prince Edward Island, Canada, on Sept. 8, 2020. John Morris/Reuters

Ontario education minister Stephen Lecce announced on Feb. 1 that the province will be expanding its targeted asymptomatic testing to schools and childcare centres located in areas where there are COVID-19 outbreaks, high case counts, and high priority communities.

“When we first launched targeted asymptomatic testing for students and staff and their households, we started in parts of the province which at the time had among the highest numbers of active COVID cases in the Toronto, Peel, Ottawa, and York Region,” Lecce said.