CASTRO VALLEY, Calif. -- Parents in a large East Bay school district picked up free COVID test kits during a four-hour window on New Year's Eve.
It's an effort to test all students in the Castro Valley Unified School District before returning to classes on Monday.With an enrollment of 9,000 students, the school district organized its give-away by having parents drive by to pick up the free test kits. One kit for each student. Each kit containing two tests.
The district wants one test to be administered now and the other on Sunday, ahead of classes resuming on Monday."The parents also know that this student needs to stay home. So our nurses and our staff follows up with the family to make sure that they quarantine the number of days they're supposed to quarantine and isolate," said Castro Valley Unified School District Superintendent Parvin Ahmadi.