COVID-19: Guelph public school board charting student and staff absence rates
Upper Grand District School Board said the data is meant to provide a sense of the impact of COVID-19 on schools now that positive cases will no longer be reported by public health.
Ontario’s education ministry to stop collecting COVID case numbers from schools The province recently announced that local health units will no longer be reporting positive cases or conducting tracing for positive cases related to staff and students in schools.“As a result, schools will no longer be providing notification when there is a suspected or confirmed case of COVID-19,” the board said on its website.The daily absence tracking pilot graph was launched this week, with students returning to the classroom.
It is available on the board’s website.As an additional measure and layer of communication to keep our communities informed, the UGDSB has launched a pilot initiative to track school absence rates on a daily basis.
This process is a pilot program and may evolve as required https://t.co/i9x1dEBdEU— Upper Grand DSB (@ugdsb) January 19, 2022The graph has a column that shows the total number of students enrolled in in-person learning at each school along with staff, including teachers, educational assistants, administration and support staff who are assigned to that site.The other column shows absences compared to the average.
United States
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Cases: 46 252 513
Deaths: 750 423
Recovered: 0
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India
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Cases: 34 321 025
Deaths: 459 652
Recovered: 0
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Brazil
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Cases: 21 835 785
Deaths: 608 235
Recovered: 0
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United Kingdom
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Cases: 9 215 683
Deaths: 141 607
Recovered: 0
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Russia
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Cases: 8 494 589
Deaths: 237 619
Recovered: 0
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