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Published: August 10, 2021

Ontario says COVID jab not mandatory for school kids, no segregation based on vaccine status

By The Editor

Tue Aug 10, 2021 – 5:03 pm EDT

THORNHILL, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) – The Ontario government says it will not be mandating that students and staff have COVID vaccinations before being allowed to return to class and that schoolchildren will not be segregated based on their vaccine status.

“With the respect to vaccines, our government’s been clear, our premier’s been clear that we will not mandate vaccine requirement for schools and for staff at this point, that’s not a decision point we are going to proceed with,” Ontario’s Education Minister Stephen Lecce told reporters last Wednesday.

“Look, the government has made the decision in the context of mandating vaccines and we’re not going to do that we’ll respect the choices individuals will make.”

Lecce made the comments at a school in Thornhill as part of an announcement of $25 million in funding to install high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters in Ontario’s schools before the start of the school year in September.

He was joined by Ontario’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Kieran Moore, who despite suggesting in late July that kids without COVID jabs could face different rules than those with the injection, now said this

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