The Windsor school has the largest COVID-19 outbreak in Ontario

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“The campus community member is self-isolating and all appropriate protocols and cleaning measures have been in place,” the university said in a statement.

“As with all COVID-19 cases, WECHU will take the lead in contact tracing … There are no additional risks to the campus community like this time.”

St. Clair College also recently updated its website to indicate that an individual who had been on campus tested positive for COVID-19.

On Monday in Queen’s Park, NDP education critic Marit Stiles addressed the provincial government and Ontario Minister of Education Stephen Lecce about the outbreaks in Begley and Langlois schools.

Stiles asked why “have no additional measures been announced to protect students and staff?”

Lecce replied that Stiles was undermining parental confidence in their institutions, “absent from knowing the facts”.

“99.95 percent of students are COVID-free in Windsor and every region of this province,” Lecce said. “This … emphasizes that the plan we unveiled, approved by the medical officer of this province, is working.”

Stiles countered that there were more than 3,800 school-based COVID-19 cases in Ontario as of Monday, up from 1,770 at the end of October, with positivity rates rising among children under the age of 10.

“We know the government has refused to limit classes to 15 to reduce risk,” Stiles said. “Will they at least step up testing, traceability and screening in our schools?”

—With files from Taylor Campbell and Mary Caton

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