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Manitoba Schools to move to online learning due to rising COVID-19 pandemic cases
Winnipeg/IBNS: Manitoba's rising third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the province's decision to move all kindergarten to Grade 12 students in Winnipeg and Brandon to remote learning starting Wednesday.
The students have been asked to stay at home until May 30, said Manitoba's Education Minister Cliff Cullen at an impromptu news conference, alongside Chief Provincial Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin, on Sunday.
"Three-quarters of the schools affected are in Winnipeg and Brandon. So right now, that was the most important to move [to remote learning] at this point," he said.
For now, schools in other parts of Manitoba will stay open but would move to online learning in case these schools see more than one COVID-19 case unless those are people from the same household,
Schools that move to remote learning, said Cullen will still be able to accommodate children of critical service workers from kindergarten to Grade 6 as well as kindergarten to Grade 12 students considered to be at high risk or who have certain disabilities.
(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)
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