A Saskatchewan-based company has quickly adapted to offer rapid testing for COVID-19 in the province, which is helping it expand to other areas of the country.
Students and staff at Regina Catholic high schools – and their family members – will be able to get a COVID-19 rapid test at school beginning Thursday.
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May 13, 2021 | 9:56 AM
With a little over six weeks left in the school year, Regina’s Catholic school division is rolling out rapid testing for COVID-19 in its four high schools.
In a letter sent to parents, the division announced rapid tests would be available to high school students, their families and staff at the schools Monday to Friday from 3:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
The letter makes clear that the tests are for screening purposes only for people who don’t have symptoms.
According to Twylla West, communications and media co-ordinator with the Regina Catholic School Division, most students in the high schools are between 14 and 17 and so can give verbal consent to testing.
REGINA Regina Public and Catholic School students resumed in-person classes on Monday, after being sent home for remote learning at the end of March. All Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 8 students will return, and Grade 9 to 12 students will continue alternating days of attendance at the public schools. Regina Catholic elementary schools will return to Level 2, face to face with masks, and Level 3 in schools with more than 600 people. Catholic high schools will also return to Level 3. For some students CTV News spoke to, being back in the classroom is a relief. “I was excited to go back to school to see my friends, of course,” said Eden Gilbert, a grade nine student at Miller Comprehensive High School.
Education critic shares concerns from school staff, families ahead of in-class learning next week in Regina By Moises Canales
Apr 28, 2021 5:40 PM
Concern, surprise and unanswered questions are what NDP Education Critic Carla Beck has heard from parents and school staff over the last few days.
She said the reactions are from conversations she has had with people in the education community following announcements from the Regina Catholic and Public school divisions to return to in-class learning starting Monday.
Beck said some in the community are excited for the return of students and staff to classrooms, but others are wondering if this is the right time with variants of concern and over 800 active COVID-19 cases in Regina.