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More than 330 Ontario schools report absence rates of 30 per cent or higher; Quebec reports 52 more deaths - The Globe and Mail

More than 300 Ontario schools reported absence rates higher than 30 per cent by the end of last week, after students returned for in-person learning.

The province is no longer publishing information on COVID-19 cases in schools due a restricted testing policy but it is sharing data on absences online, whether or not they are related to the virus.

The province has said families will be notified once 30 per cent of students and staff are absent.

Data published Monday show nearly 337 schools had hit that mark as of Friday and 111 schools had absence rates higher than 50 per cent.

Data was made available for 3,451 of the province’s 4,844 schools.

One school in the Niagara Catholic District School Board had an absence rate of 100 per cent — the reasons for that weren’t immediately clear — and 21 schools had absence rates higher than 80 per cent.

Meanwhile, Ontario is reporting 615 patients in intensive care due to COVID-19 and 3,861 patients hospitalized in total.

Health Minister Christine Elliott notes that not all hospitals report weekend data.

Thirty-seven more people have died from the virus.

The province says it removed one death from the total tally of 11,004 deaths due to a data clean-up.

Ontario reported 4,790 new COVID-19 cases today but Public Health Ontario has said the actual number is higher because of changes to the province’s testing policy.

Meanwhile, Quebec is reporting 52 more COVID-19 deaths, ahead of an announcement later today on the government’s plan to encourage the unvaccinated to get a first dose.

The Health Department says COVID-19-related hospitalizations rose by 16 compared with the prior day, to 3,299, after 254 patients entered hospital and 238 were discharged.

The number of patients in intensive care dropped by 10, for a total of 263.

Later today, deputy health minister Lionel Carmant will unveil the government’s plan to get more people vaccinated against COVID-19.

The government has said that unvaccinated Quebec adults are significantly overrepresented in the province’s intensive care units.

Meanwhile, the vaccine passport was extended to big-box stores today. Proof of vaccination against COVID-19 is now required to access large-scale retail stores such as Walmart and Costco.

Proof-of-vaccination requirements do not apply to stores that primarily sell pharmacy or grocery products.

Officials are reporting 2,807 new COVID-19 cases today, but they say the case count isn’t representative of the situation because PCR testing is limited to certain high-risk groups.

The province says it administered 62,562 doses of COVID-19 vaccine on Sunday.

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