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The Durham District College Board (DDSB) has not but acquired sufficient COVID-19 speedy assessments for all college students to get the 2 assessments promised by the province.
On Jan. 12, the province introduced a “a big deployment of speedy antigen assessments” with greater than 3.9-million assessments shipped to varsities final week and extra set to be delivered this week.
College students and college workers are presupposed to get two assessments every to start out, with a objective to offer extra secure provide after that.
On the DDSB’s Jan, 17 assembly, officers stated the board has not acquired sufficient provide for each scholar to get their preliminary two assessments.
“We've let the ministry know that we have now not acquired an enough provide and are hopeful that extra assessments might be out there very quickly for additional distribution," stated DDSB affiliate director David Wright.
The board might be handing out the out there assessments utilizing a “precedence order,” giving them to college students in kindergarten to Grade 2 first, in addition to in-person college workers and child-care companions.
The province has directed individuals to make use of the assessments when symptomatic and to take two speedy assessments 24 hours aside.
DDSB officers have additionally raised issues that the provision of three-ply fabric masks for college students offered by the province doesn't embrace sufficient sizes.