[GTranslate]Thorncliffe Park Public School, Gateway Public School, Ryerson Community School, Clinton Street Junior Public School. And St. Rose of Lima and St. Jude Catholic School.

These are the six schools in Toronto – four in the Public Board and two in the Catholic Board- which have been closed since yesterday due to Covid-19 outbreaks.

The list of schools that have been forced to resort to distance learning is therefore extended even for students who have opted for in presence lessons: since Monday, St. Dominic Savio Catholic School, Brian Public School and Victoria Village Public School have also closed their doors.

And according to Toronto District School Board (TDSB) spokesman Ryan Bird, another school is about to close: its name will be made public after the parents of the children who attend it are made aware of the situation.

There is currently no school reopening date: Bird said the closures could last from a few days to a couple of weeks, it all depends on Toronto Public Health’s investigation of infections. St. Dominic Savio Catholic School in Scarborough, Brian Public School and Victoria Village Public School in North York have been closed since Monday.

There are therefore 63 closed schools in Ontario and 1,199 schools where coronavirus outbreaks are active. In the last twenty-four hours, according to data reported on the government website, a further 332 infections have been identified, of which 282 are students and 50 teachers. That there were closures on the horizon was already in the air, so much so that last Monday the TDSB sent an email to all the principals and vice-principals of its schools asking them to be prepared to transfer students to virtual learning.

According to the TDSB at Gateway Public School in North York, six students and one staff member tested positive for Covid-19, at Clinton Street Junior Public School on Manning Street there are five infected children, while seven students are infected at Ryerson Community School in Chinatown neighbourhood.

Thorncliffe Park Public School was particularly affected by Covid, which had already been closed last December due to an outbreak of the virus: here there are seven cases still active while that solved amount to 61.

In the two schools of the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) that closed yesterday, there were twenty new infections: ten among students and teachers at St. Jude and ten others – all students – at the St. Rose of Lima.

At the moment there are seven schools in the Catholic Board of Toronto temporarily closed, those of the public school board are six. It would seem that the variants of Covid are closing schools. What has not been decided by decree is happening as a result of the contagion.