Sudbury Student Services Consortium reports several exposures to COVID-19 on school buses, as well as several route cancellations due to driver shortages.
The consortium said the morning elementary portion of Bus Route L314 as well as the afternoon elementary portion of bus Route L375 are cancelled due to a COVID-19 exposure and will resume on Nov. 1.
The affected schools are St. Charles elementary and Chelmsford Valley District Composite School elementary.
Also, the morning elementary portion of Bus Route L852 as well as the afternoon elementary portion of bus Route L122 are cancelled due to a COVID-19 exposure. The affected schools are St. Francis Catholic Elementary School, École Hélène Gravel and École St-Denis.
Due to a driver shortage, the following routes are cancelled for the week of Oct. 25 — L005, L006, L012, L016, L022, L101, L114, L123, L301.
The Rainbow District School Board has also reported a case of COVID-19 in a student at Confederation Secondary School.
The board said in a letter posted to the school board’s site Oct. 23 that staff and students in the Grade 8 class in Room 138 at the school have been asked to self-isolate until Oct. 31.
The school remains open for in-person learning.
There have now been 48 cases of COVID-19 in local JK-12 schools since the new school year began in September, although many of those cases are resolved.
Laurentian University is also reporting an active case of COVID-19 affecting a member of the university community on its reporting dashboard.
