More than 100 University of Alberta medical students are offering volunteer child care to physicians and other front-line health-care workers as a way to keep them on the job during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The students came together after the province announced Sunday that in-person post-secondary classes would be cancelled amid the spread of the novel coronavirus.

The child-care service is offered by third- and fourth-year students who were temporarily pulled from clinical rotations, the U of A said in a media release Friday.

First- and second-year students are also helping where possible, but have greater limits because they have to keep up with online classes. “I’ve been so impressed by just how quickly (people have stepped up) and how

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