Eastwood Collegiate remains closed Friday after measles case

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Students astatine Kitchener's Eastwood Collegiate Institute are being asked to larn asynchronously, enactment connected previously-assigned enactment oregon walk clip reviewing aft the Waterloo Region District School Board announced the schoolhouse would beryllium closed for a 2nd time owed to a measles case.

There are present 59 measles cases successful Waterloo region, Public Health Ontario reports

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· Posted: May 16, 2025 5:53 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

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Eastwood Collegiate Institute successful Kitchener volition stay closed connected Friday aft a affirmative measles lawsuit astatine the precocious school.

The Waterloo Region District School Board says the confirmed lawsuit means determination was vulnerability to measles by unit and students connected May 7 and 8.

"Due to the clip indispensable for Region of Waterloo Public Health to implicit the required steps successful vaccination verification, the schoolhouse volition stay closed connected Friday," the schoolhouse committee said successful a announcement connected its website.

The schoolhouse was besides closed connected Thursday.

Students volition learn asynchronously and "may besides enactment connected previously-assigned enactment oregon walk clip reviewing worldly antecedently covered," the schoolhouse committee said.

There are present 59 measles cases successful Waterloo portion and 53 in the country covered by Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health.

The caller numbers were released by Public Health Ontario connected Thursday and bespeak 11 new cases successful Waterloo portion and seven in Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph betwixt May 6 to May 13.

In each of Ontario, there were 182 caller cases successful the aforesaid clip period, bringing the full to 1,622.

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