3 staff test positive for coronavirus at Toronto daycare centre
Posted April 29, 2020 5:38 am.
Last Updated April 29, 2020 11:01 am.
TORONTO – Three staff members at a city-run child care centre in Toronto have tested positive for the coronavirus.
The city said Tuesday night the three people work at the Jesse Ketchum Early Learning and Child Care Centre in Toronto’s core, around the area of Davenport Road and Bay Street.
Two other staff members and two children are also awaiting test results, the city said in a release.
“The city continues to reach out to notify the families who have children attending the child care centre. Staff and the 58 children who attended the child care centre from April 21 to April 28 will be asked to remain at home for two weeks from their last day at the child care centre and will be excluded from all Toronto emergency child care centres as a precautionary measure for this same period,” the release reads.
The facility has suspended child-care services for 14 days to allow crews to clean and disinfect the building.
The Jesse Ketchum site is one of seven emergency child care centres that were kept open to care for the children of essential services workers.
The city’s other remaining emergency child-care centres will remain open.
