KFL&A Public Health is advising local post-secondary institutions to continue online and distance learning for the next academic year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Dr. Kieran Moore, medical officer of health for the region, said during a board of health meeting on Wednesday that he believes local post-secondary schools will be heeding that advice. “I anticipate that they’ll maintain that distance learning and monitor how COVID-19 spreads in the fall and winter,” Moore said on the conference call Wednesday.
He noted that early on, public health was in communication with Queen’s University and St. Lawrence College to address immediate concerns to slow the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, locally among higher