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WATERTOWN â Despite continuous record-setting new amounts of COVID-19 cases, including many positives among staff and students over their winter break, schools across the tri-county region will continue with instruction as planned though Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo mulls implementing new testing regimens.
Gov. Cuomo suggested on Monday that the state may move to implement a requirement that schools regularly test students and staff for the coronavirus if their county has a positivity rate above 9%, but in the days since then, the state has seemed to be holding off.
âWeâve seen no guidance from the Department of Health or Department of Education indicating a change from that protocol, so weâre still operating from the presumption of âif youâre in a cluster zone thatâs colored yellow, orange or red you do indeed test according to those protocols,â Jefferson-Lewis BOCES Superintendent Stephen Todd told the Times.