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The latest coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Tuesday. This file will be updated throughout the day. Web links to longer stories if available.

5:30 a.m.: It's the first day back to school after the summer break for many Ontario students.

Classes resume today in boards including the Bluewater District School Board, the District School Board of Niagara and the Halton District School Board.

Some other boards — including the largest, the Toronto District School Board — start classes on Thursday.

This will be the third school year in which classes are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ontario's Ministry of Education has sent guidelines to schools in a bid to slow the spread of the virus, which include requirements that staff and students self-screen for COVID-19 each day and wear masks indoors.

The ministry has also required that all boards offer an remote learning option for students who don't feel comfortable in the classroom due to the pandemic.

5:25 a.m.: The last year of the pandemic robbed Ontarians across the province of countless special moments. When schools moved online, students and teachers at all levels were forced to adjust to a new way of life. Their expectations for pivotal events were altered: university students missed out on the traditional campus experience; the very first day of school for Grade 1’s saw no tearful drop-offs; coaches didn’t run their extracurriculars.

As the province collectively heads into back-to-school activities, parents, children, teenagers, university students and teachers share their hopes for the coming academic year — and their lingering fears as a fourth wave rolls in.

The Star’s Olivia Bowden and Maria Sarrouh caught up with some students ahead of the their first day back in class.

4:25 a.m.: The southern Indian state of Kerala is quickly ramping up efforts to stop a potential outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus, even as the state continues to battle the highest number of coronavirus cases in the country.

Kerala is on high alert after a 12-year-old boy died of the rare virus on Sunday, spurring health officials to start contact-tracing and isolating hundreds of people who came into contact with the boy, who died at a hospital in the coastal city of Kozhikode.

On Tuesday, the state health minister told reporters that the samples of eight primary contacts have come back negative.

Nipah, which was first identified during a late 1990s outbreak in Malaysia, can be spread by fruit bats, pigs and through human-to-human contact. There is no vaccine for the virus, which can cause raging fevers, convulsions and vomiting. The only treatment is supportive care to control complications and keep patients comfortable.

The virus has an estimated fatality rate of between 40 per cent and 75 per cent, according to the WHO, making it far more deadly than the coronavirus.

4:05 a.m.: The federal government has added fully vaccinated foreign nationals to the ranks of travellers who are once again welcome on Canadian soil.

As of midnight Monday night, quarantine requirements were eased for non-essential international travellers who have had a full course of a Health Canada-approved COVID-19 vaccine.

To be eligible, travellers must have allowed at least 14 days to pass since their last vaccine shot and show proof of a negative molecular test for COVID-19 that's no more than 72 hours old.

They are also required to use the ArriveCAN app or online web portal to upload their vaccination details.

Canada has approved four COVID-19 vaccines: Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot, also known as Covishield, and the single-dose Johnson & Johnson option.

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