CCSD expands COVID-19 testing options for unvaccinated employees

The Clark County School District announced Wednesday it’s adding much COVID-19 investigating sites for employees required to acquisition play screenings.

The alteration is owed to “unforeseen circumstances and to accommodate play required COVID-19 investigating for identified unit extracurricular of their contractual workday,” Deputy Superintendent Brenda Larsen-Mitchell said successful a memo to employees.

Another change: The territory is allowing employees to acquisition PCR investigating — not accelerated antigen investigating — astatine a non-district site, specified arsenic astatine a pharmacy, Southern Nevada Health District, University Medical Center, UNLV oregon the College of Southern Nevada.

The deadline is 11:59 p.m. connected the past time of each investigating cycle. Employees indispensable email their laboratory effect to RMTVerification@nv.ccsd.net.

The schoolhouse territory announced earlier this month that employees who aren’t afloat vaccinated against COVID-19 are required to acquisition play COVID-19 testing.

Employees who upload their completed COVID-19 vaccination paper to a third-party website tally by emocha Health are exempted.

For schoolhouse territory investigating sites, there’s besides present an online tracker wherever employees tin spot however galore radical are successful enactment astatine each territory investigating determination to debar agelong waits.

An online docket for this week shows 8 sites operating each day, but for 7 connected Wednesday.

“Once again, the territory is committed to keeping our schools unfastened for in-person learning, portion promoting the wellness and information of each students and staff,” Larsen-Mitchell wrote successful the memo. “We volition proceed to show the wellness information successful our assemblage to marque informed decisions regarding the implementation of mitigation strategies.”

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