Calls are growing for the Ontario government to make COVID-19 tests available to children attending the province’s daycares, with parents saying the lack of access is stoking anxiety.
Last week, the province said PCR testing for COVID-19 would be limited to high-risk groups amid soaring infections, and the government said it would stop reporting cases in schools and child-care settings due to “changes to case and contact management.”
Schools across the province are moving classes online this week in response to the rapidly spreading Omicron variant, but daycares — which care for many children too young to be vaccinated — are
