Ontario’s School Reopening in Early 2021 Had Only Small Increase in COVID Cases, Study Shows

A family walk past the sign at Thorncliffe Park Public School in Toronto on Dec. 4, 2020. Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press

School reopenings in Ontario only resulted in a small increase in COVID-19 cases in the province in early 2021, a new study finds.

The study, published in Health Affairs, a U.S. peer-reviewed journal on health policies, sought to determine the change in COVID-19 case rates in the weeks after the reopening of the province’s public schools.