COVID-19 Testing for âEvery Student, Every Weekâ Is Goal of Quest, Ginkgo Collaboration
May 3, 2021
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Although the number of Americans vaccinated against COVID-19 rises every day, testing remains a key component to the country’s public health effort to thwart the spread of the virus. Testing is particularly important as more childrenâwho are currently ineligible for a vaccineâreturn to school for in-person learning.
Today, Ginkgo Bioworks announced a collaboration with Quest Diagnostics to provide COVID-19 testing services for every Kâ12 student in the United States, every week. This announcement comes just one month after Ginkgo announced a partnership with Helix to provide testing to Kâ12 schools across the western United States.
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UPDATE Aegis Sciences Corporation announces participation in National Testing Action Plan for K-12 Schools to Safely Reopen
April 07, 2021 16:13 ET | Source: Aegis Sciences Corporation Aegis Sciences Corporation
NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)
The Rockefeller Foundation announced an initiative on March 26, to provide guidance on testing for K-12 public schools to enable safe in-person learning. T
he K-12 National Testing Action Program: Connecting Schools with the Nation’s Leading Testing Companies to Safely Reopen (NTAP) connects schools with laboratories and testing partners, including Aegis Sciences Corporation.
Routine testing of students, teachers and staff empowers school administrators with the knowledge they need to safely operate in-person learning. A successful testing program works to quickly identify positive cases to keep school infection rates low. Laboratory partners must return results to schools and tes
TEA has updated its guidance to include a public school system s current practices on masks may continue unchanged. As a result, Alief ISD will continue to require masks and facial coverings in all schools and district facilities.
Additionally, the US Department of Health and Human Services issued a directive expanding COVID-19 vaccination eligibility to educators and child care workers. Alvin ISD is committed to health and safety and has taken extensive steps to keep our staff and students healthy over the past year.
This week, the State of Texas announced they are lifting statewide mandates relating to COVID-19. As a result, the Texas Education Agency updated its public health guidance. Under this updated guidance, a public-school system s current practices regarding masks may continue unchanged. Local school boards have full authority to determine their local mask policy.
Published February 24, 2021, 4:38 PM
The IT-business process management (IT-BPM) industry has successfully adjusted to the work from-home (WFH) arrangement and is reaping real benefits while ensuring continued service to global clients during the pandemic period, according to the industry top leader.
Manolito “Lito” Tayag, chairman of the IT-Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP), presented the industry’s real benefits during a virtual forum on “Actions and Solutions to Safely Reopen the Economy” organized by the Management Association of the Philippines.
According to Tayag, the industry experienced 15 to 40 percent increase in productivity for employees with optimized remote models, 40 percent reduction in absenteeism, 10-15 percent reduction in attrition, and 20 percent potential cost reduction in real estate and resource usage.