Not unlike schools, the daycare sector has pivoted multiple times during the pandemic, adopting new health and safety protocols and overhauling different operations. “If [daycare staff] weren’t here for us … everyone would be at home,” Dacosta said. “If the whole daycare has to shut down [to isolate], where do the children of the essential workers go? Things have changed drastically for the daycare sector amid the pandemic, including screening and temperature checks at the door. The two University of Manitoba professors launched a survey in early January, asking child-care workers in the province about what they’ve been experiencing amid the current Omicron-driven wave.

Source: CBC News January 23, 2022 13:53 UTC