By Cheryl Jahn

All eyes on schools post-holiday season

Jan 8, 2021 | 2:40 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – Both the Board of Education and the Prince George District Teachers Association are waiting with bated breath to see how the COVID numbers will look in schools after the Christmas break.

“Absolutely. We have a lot of apprehensions. As we’ve had all year,” says Joanne Hapke, President of the PGDTA. While shoe notes the schools are likely cleaner now than they have ever been. “But are they safe? It’s about what comes into our schools. We know people have been travelling outside of our region. People have been going down south, they’ve had family come to them. And what came with them?”

There have been COVID exposures in more than twenty Prince George schools since late November and mid-December, went school broke for the holidays. What aggravates Hapke is the lack of transparency by Northern Health.

“How cases are there actually? Because we do know one exposure letter does not mean one exposure. There could be a number of positive cases attached to that one exposure letter. So what are the true numbers that we’re dealing with?”

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Also, the PGTDA has yet to see a game plan should COVID cases spike as a result of the holidays.