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COVID-1917 March 2021
By Sue Tiffin
Students, their families and staff of six Trillium Lakelands District School Board schools in Haliburton County were invited to take part in targeted testing on March 6, with 69 people ultimately being tested.
The targeted testing of staff and students in public schools was expanded throughout the province by the Ministry of Education on Feb. 1 to “offer an additional layer of protection and help keep schools and child care centres safe,” according to the provincial government by “identifying cases that might otherwise have gone undetected; reducing transmission of COVID-19 from community into schools and within schools; and, reducing barriers and making it easier to get a test in your community.”