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Sudbury Student Services Consortium is reporting seven new bus route cancellations today as a result of the impact of COVID-19. That’s on top of five existing bus route cancellations from last week.
The new bus route cancellations are as follows:
- Morning elementary portion of bus Route L819 - affecting students at R.L Beattie Public School.
- Morning secondary portion of bus Route N409 - affecting students at Bishop Alexander Carter and École Secondaire Hanmer.
- Afternoon secondary portion of bus Route N412 - affecting students at Bishop Alexander Carter.
- Morning secondary portion of bus Route N408 - affecting students at Bishop Alexander Carter and École Secondaire Hanmer.
- Afternoon secondary portion of bus Route N407 - affecting students at Bishop Alexander Carter.
- Morning elementary portion of bus Route N408 - affecting students at St. Anne Elementary School and École Notre-Dame.
- Afternoon elementary portion of bus Route N424 - affecting students at St. Anne Elementary School, Redwood Public School, École Notre-Dame and École Foyer Jeunesse.
This as the number of active cases of COVID-19 in area JK-12 schools climbed to 12 over the weekend.
Two new cases of COVID-19 have been reported at R.L. Beattie Public School, bringing the case count at the school up to four. An outbreak has been declared at the school, although it remains open.
A letter on the Rainbow District School Board’s website pertaining to one of the R.L. Beattie cases said students in the Grade 1 class in Room 99 have been asked to self-isolate, as well as the students in the School Age 1 (SAC 1) before and after school program.
Also over the weekend, Public Health Sudbury & Districts officially declared an outbreak of COVID-19 at Bishop Alexander Carter Catholic Secondary School, where two people have tested positive for the virus.
There are also cases of COVID-19 at Lasalle Secondary School (1), St. Charles College (3), École catholique La Renaissance in Espanola (1) and École Ste-Marie (1).
