FILE PHOTO: Ontario Premier Doug Ford attends a memorial for the victims of a Ukrainian passenger plane which was shot down in Iran, at Convocation Hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada January 12, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio
TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian province of Ontario will keep elementary schools in its southern regions closed for in-person learning until Jan. 25, the provincial government announced on Thursday.
The decision comes as the test positivity rate for COVID-19 - or the proportion of tests that come back as positive - for children under the age of 13 in the province reaches 20%, Premier Doug Ford said earlier on Thursday.
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