Students and others connected to a Kitchener, Ont., high school have been sent letters by Waterloo Public Health over potential exposure to COVID-19, the agency confirmed to Global News on Tuesday. “Yesterday afternoon, letters were sent home from public health to 80 members of the St Mary’s high school community,” said Dr.
Hsiu-Li Wang, the region’s acting medical officer of health. It was “to let them know that they may have had a low-risk exposure to COVID-19,” she explained, “because one of our nine cases now in Waterloo region is a member of that school community.” Because of the patient’s right to privacy, Wang could not get into specifics about how the infected person was connected to the school. “We’re not providing more information