10% of Alberta Schools Have COVID-19 Outbreaks – Student Advocacy Group

Wing Li, director of communications and lead tracker for Support Our Students Alberta, says she has confirmed that 228 of about 2,400 elementary and middle schools have active outbreaks.

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An advocacy group tracking COVID-19 cases among students in Alberta is calling for contact to be re-traced, saying nearly 10 percent of schools are dealing with outbreaks.

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Wing Li, director of communications and lead tracker for Support Our Students Alberta, says she has confirmed that 228 of about 2,400 elementary and middle schools have active outbreaks.

She says that at least 10 percent of the students in those schools are sick at home with COVID-19 or a variant of the virus.

Li says she has been able to track the illnesses because parents have sent letters from Alberta Health Services to their children’s schools notifying them of an outbreak.

Li says the group began tracking cases because the provincial government has ended contact tracing and mandatory isolation of close contacts from positive cases.

The mother of two says Support Our Students receives about 100 messages a day from parents reporting an outbreak or expressing frustration over the pandemic.