According to Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Dominic Cardy, there are currently no plans to reinstate mandatory masking in the province's schools.

Cardy said he would support any measures recommended by Public Health as he believes those recommendations would be based on science. Because Public Health has not made those recommendations, he said he has no plans to override their advice.

Earlier this week, premier Blaine Higgs said he would be fine with the Department of Education adopting its own masking rules, even though those measures have been lifted provincewide.