and Peel Public Health will require that all students with one or more symptoms of COVID-19 stay home and get tested for the disease.
Toronto Public Health says if a student has one symptom of COVID-19 they will now have to stay home, self-isolate and get tested COVID-19. If they live with siblings in the same household, they must also self-isolate, even if they do not have symptoms. The rules will be similar in Peel Region, where students who have a runny nose or sore throat are being advised to either get tested for COVID-19, self-isolate for 10 days , or consult a health-care provider to determine if there is another cause for the symptoms.
"This change is necessary to strengthen our safeguards in schools and to protect our community from further spread of COVID-19," Peel Public Health told CTV News Toronto in a statement on Friday. "We know from our local data and experience globally that children are more likely to have mild symptoms than adults."