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Officials with the region’s two largest school boards are planning how to roll out asymptomatic testing of staff and students for COVID-19 as mandated by the government.
The Ministry of Education sent a memo last week outlining the requirements for testing protocols that took effect Monday.
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Administrators for both the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board and the Greater Essex County District School Board described the program as being in its initial stage with no announced start date.
WINDSOR, ONT. Ontario s Ministry of Education wants asymptomatic testing of staff and students available starting the week of Feb. 22, according to school board officials in Windsor-Essex. And yet, both say they are still in the planning stages of the plan. Will testing start next week at the Greater Essex District School Board? I sincerely hope so, I’m working towards that says Sharon Pyke, GECDSB superintendent and COVID lead. Pyke does say they still working with the health unit and ministry to identify which schools should be offered testing first. And she says they also must meet with a third-party vendor to iron out all the details of the program.
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Several Ontario school boards are scrambling to put plans in place for asymptomatic testing after the province gave them only days to implement a new approach that includes weekly targets.
A memo sent to school officials this week from the province’s Education Minister, Stephen Lecce, mandated that boards offer tests in 5 per cent of their schools every week – and to at least 2 per cent of their students.
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