{"id":256610,"date":"2020-05-30T05:27:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T09:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=256610"},"modified":"2020-05-30T05:27:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T09:27:48","slug":"41-students-staff-in-quebec-contract-covid-19-since-elementary-schools-reopen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/05\/30\/41-students-staff-in-quebec-contract-covid-19-since-elementary-schools-reopen\/","title":{"rendered":"41 students, staff in Quebec contract COVID-19 since elementary schools reopen"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_256611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-256611\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/41-students-staff-in-Quebec-contract-COVID-19-since-elementary-schools-reopen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-256611\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/41-students-staff-in-Quebec-contract-COVID-19-since-elementary-schools-reopen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/41-students-staff-in-Quebec-contract-COVID-19-since-elementary-schools-reopen.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/41-students-staff-in-Quebec-contract-COVID-19-since-elementary-schools-reopen-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/41-students-staff-in-Quebec-contract-COVID-19-since-elementary-schools-reopen-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/41-students-staff-in-Quebec-contract-COVID-19-since-elementary-schools-reopen-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-256611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The highest number of cases were recorded in the Laurentians and Monteregie regions, with each having 10 confirmed cases. (Pixabay file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Quebec&#8217;s Education Department has confirmed that a total of 41 students and staff members contracted coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), two weeks after elementary schools outside the Montreal area reopened on May 11.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a May 25 survey of school boards, there were 19 students and 22 staff members who tested positive for the COVID-19 in the first two weeks of the school reopening.<\/p>\n<p>The highest number of cases were recorded in the Laurentians and Monteregie regions, with each having 10 confirmed cases.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press cited Quebec&#8217;s public health director Dr. Horacio Arruda in its report, saying that even though there were cases in schools, these did not cause any &#8220;significant negative impacts.&#8221; He added that more cases are expected as the province relaxes some restrictions, but he assured that situation is under control.<\/p>\n<p>As per Quebec Premier Francois Legault&#8217;s earlier announcement, high schools, junior colleges, and universities will not be reopened until September to limit the traffic in public transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the reopening of schools in the greater Montreal area will be delayed until September, as the number of coronavirus cases in the area continues to rise.<\/p>\n<p>As of publishing, Quebec has recorded 530 new infections on Friday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 50,232, while its COVID-19-related death toll reached 4,363 after it recorded 61 new deaths on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec&#8217;s Education Department has confirmed that a total of 41 students and staff members contracted coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), two &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":256611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","mauthors-joanna-belle-deala","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256617,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256610\/revisions\/256617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}