Ontario education minister Stephen Lecce announced on Feb. 1 that the province will be expanding its targeted asymptomatic testing to schools and childcare centres located in areas where there are COVID-19 outbreaks, high case counts, and high priority communities. “When we first launched targeted asymptomatic testing for students and staff and their households, we started in parts of the province which at the time had among the highest numbers of active COVID cases in the Toronto, Peel, Ottawa, and York Region,” Lecce said.  The minister said 63 schools participated and approximately 9,000 tests were conducted with about 200 new cases identified.  “Through these tests, we found that under 2 percent of all student cases came back positive, and the majority of positive cases were found in those outside of the school,” he added.  Besides expanding testing, Lecce said the province is allocating an additional $381 million to improve air quality …