COVID-19 outbreaks declared at two Toronto elementary schools as boards report more than 100 new cases

COVID-19 outbreaks have been declared at two Toronto elementary schools just one week after students returned to the classroom.

Toronto Public Health says that it has declared outbreaks at both Alvin Curling Public School in Scarborough and King George Junior Public School in Runnymede after determining that at least two cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus at each school were "linked."

At this point, both schools remain open for in-person learning.

"We're carefully investigating and following our process of working with our school community to notify close contacts and ask them to stay home, monitor for symptoms and get tested," Toronto Public Health said in a series of messages posted to Twitter on Thursday afternoon. "This isn't unexpected given COVID-19 continues to circulate in our city and how transmissible the Delta variant is."

There are currently three active cases among students and one active case among staff at Alvin Curling Public School. At King George Junior Public School, there are two active cases among students.