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Coronavirus: Most child-care centres in Ontario unlikely to reopen on Friday, operators and advocates say
COVID-19-era rules to open with just a few days’ notice.Many centres are also likely to face financial challenges, they say, operating at reduced capacity and with long-promised government funding not yet flowing and no indication of more to come.“I honestly have no idea who would be able to open tomorrow,” said Kim Yeaman, the owner and operator of Simcoe Childcare Services in Innisfil, Ont.“This is really a two-to-three-week turnaround for redoing all of our policies and procedures, for cleaning … for training staff, for making sure we have enough staff.” Child-care operators say they received a 20-page document with all the new rules for operating on Tuesday at 11:30 p.m.