You’ll soon be able to give your little one a COVID-19 test at home.
Schools are giving out rapid test kits to parents who want them, as part of the Test to Protect Kids pilot program.
Dr. Robert Strang, the Chief Medical Officer of Health, said it’s important to know what’s going on in that under 12 age group.
“We have to be careful, and watch very closely, what’s happening in our schools, but we shouldn’t be fearful and anxious about what’s happening in schools.
The kit has four take-home rapid COVID-19 tests and instructions on how to do the test.
Volunteers are putting together 80,000 kits, that’s 320,000 rapid tests.
“We have to limit spread, even within young people, especially with those who, because of age, have not yet had an opportunity to get vaccinated.”
Public Health officials want you to use the test if it’s hard for your family to get to a COVID-19 testing site and your child has symptoms or if your child only has one mild symptom and doesn’t need a PCR test, and if you’re comfortable doing a shallow nose swab on your child
Schools are giving details to parent next week.
