Bay Area Parents Look for COVID-19 Tests as Students Return to School

As thousands of Bay Area students caput backmost to schoolhouse Monday, districts are doing each they tin to halt the dispersed of COVID-19 by offering escaped at-home trial kits.

San Jose Unified School District handed retired thousands of location trial kits Sunday. Many parents considered it an added level of extortion arsenic kids caput backmost to schoolhouse aft the holidays.

The lines were agelong arsenic families successful the San Jose Unified School District waited to person escaped COVID-19 at-home trial kits astatine the territory warehouse.

The territory adjacent offered investigating for those who didn’t privation to usage the astatine location kit.

San Jose teacher Nancy Urena-Reid applauded the move.

“It’s important to support students successful the schoolroom and support teachers harmless truthful students they tin larn and beryllium successful,” she said.

Oakland Unified besides handed retired escaped trial kits to hundreds of students and their parents who were consenting to hold successful agelong lines to get one.

“It took 4 hours it was a precise acold greeting but it’s important to trial and trial often that’s the lone mode to power the spread,” said Mario Carrasco.

The request for trial kits was besides precocious astatine West Contra Costa Unified School District, immoderate teachers were gladsome to spot it.

As kids instrumentality to field and adults instrumentality to enactment aft question and vacation gatherings, concerns astir the highly contagious omicron variant are high.

At the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, hundreds of radical waited successful their cars to person nasal swabs and pharmacies crossed the South Bay, COVID-19 location trial kits are sold out.