Staff shortages lead to more 'functional closures' at B.C. schools
Two more schools have declared functional closures in B.C. as illnesses and isolations due to the Omicron variant of COVID-19 leave a handful of elementary and secondary schools without enough staff to operate safely.
Heritage Park Middle School in Mission is closed from today until next Thursday while Armstrong Elementary in Armstrong expects to reopen on Tuesday -- as those two schools join Hazelton Secondary in northwestern B.C. and an independent Christian school in Surrey that declared functional closures earlier this week.
B.C. School Trustees Association president Stephanie Higginson says, all things considered, schools have done very well dealing with the effect of the rapidly spreading COVID variant because just four out of roughly 1,600 have been hit so far.
Other services and businesses affected by illness include Whistler Transit which has cancelled several routes through the weekend because of a lack of drivers, while a number of BC Ferries sailings were also scrubbed this morning due to staffing issues.
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