Toronto Medical Officer of Health Dr. Eileen de Villa has alerted staff and students at Whitney Junior Public School that someone who now has a confirmed case of COVID-19 visited the school on March 4. The Toronto and District School Board has said that the individual was not a staff member or student at the school, though their reason for being there has not been released. In her letter, Dr. De Villa said that the individual was not symptomatic on the day he visited the school and therefore the risk to staff and students is considered low. Whitney Junior Public School is at the corner of Rosedale Heights Rd. and Maclennan Ave. Members of the school community are being urged to monitor for symptoms and to call ahead if they need to seek medical treatment. “Symptoms of COVID-19 may appear in as few as two days or as long as 14 days after exposure and may include: fever, new onset of cough, difficulty breathing, fatigue, chills, malaise, sore throat, and/or diarrhea,” de Villa said in the letter. School cleaning staff have been scrubbing handrails, doorknobs and push plates at all schools, given the emerging threat from COVID-19.
