Health officials say they’re prepared for the likelihood that there will be COVID-19 cases at schools and will alert the public when there’s an outbreak.
Provincial health officer Doctor Bonnie Henry says if there are exposures at school, learning groups or individual schools could be closed.
However, she says she does not foresee a scenario where the entire public school system shuts down again as it did at the outset of the pandemic.
Schools across British Columbia reopened yesterday, as B-C set a new daily record of COVID-19 cases with 139, 2 of which are in the Island Health region.
