Some parents say students in Ontario received ill-fitted masks upon return to schools

Ontario are raising concerns about the three-ply cloth masks their children received from schools this week, saying the masks are too big and not protective enough against the highly-contagious Omicron variant.The provincial government said it would be providing school staff with N95 masks and students with three-ply cloth masks as in-person learning resumed this week.A spokeswoman said the province sends a mix of sizes to boards, which have the flexibility to place varying orders for the sizes their students need.

A few boards said the masks they received were too big for some young children and said they were working on addressing the issue.

4,114 people in Ontario hospitals with COVID, 590 in intensive care In Guelph, Ont., Nathan Poulton said his two kids – aged four and six – received one three-ply cloth mask each from school, but the mask doesn’t fit his younger son’s face well.“It fits one kid and ?

just kind of sags off the other kid’s face,” he said. “It is adjustable, but the size difference between a four-year-old and a six-year-old’s faces is pretty big.”Poulton said he recently purchased child-sized N95 masks for his kids, and plans to give them those to use instead, since they fit better and are higher grade masks.The Upper Grand District School Board in Guelph said the board has heard “some comments that the masks are too big for some students.” Toronto students head back to class after COVID-19 remote learning, snowstorm Spokeswoman Heather Loney said school administrators have been reminded “to ensure the fit of the cloth masks and to make every effort to ensure that students receive an appropriately sized mask when distributed.”The board said it received the masks from the Ministry of Education.