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Ontario's chief medical officer of health Dr. David Williams said on Thursday that he hopes students could be back in classrooms for the final few weeks before the summer break and "then getting ready what we hope for is a more normal fall program for them."

Dr. Williams said schools in Ontario were originally closed pre-emptively due to the third wave of COVID-19, but that they're "prepared to handle" opening schools now with "case numbers coming down rapidly" because "65 per cent of the adult population have been vaccinated."

Williams said most public health units in the province support the reopening of schools, which have been shut to in-person learning since early- to mid-April.

Cases of COVID-19 continue to fall in the third wave of the pandemic while Ontario remains under a stay-at-home order. Vaccinations continue to surge with more than 8.2 million people receiving their first shot.

Ontario reported 1,135 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday. The provincial total now stands at 527,180.

The death toll in the province has risen to 8,697 as 19 more deaths were recorded.

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