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Asymptomatic testing, closing of learning gap key issues in students’ return to Hamilton schools
Guelph, Hamilton, Waterloo Region students among those heading back to classroom Monday “We’ve really stepped up the ability to make sure that our public health units on the ground could deploy tests to make sure that if there’s any issues involved, we get in there, we test, we detect, we isolate and ultimately take action if required.”The chair of the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) Dawn Danko says the 25,000 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests made available for city schools will be under the purview of public health and will likely go to target “high-risk” schools in the region should there be an outbreak.“When we have an increase in cases and in a location in the community or where maybe there’s a trend