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 The program is for students who may have been exposed to COVID-19 in
school and can still attend classes in person rather than quarantine
at home as long as they test negative for the disease and show no
symptoms.
"Test to stay" is a practice comprised of regular testing and
contact tracing to allow close contacts to remain in the classroom,
while maintaining other layered prevention strategies, such as
universal masking, to reduce the spread of COVID-19, according to
the CDC website.
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 The agency said it views test
to stay "as a promising practice," adding it was
working with multiple jurisdictions now
implementing test to stay to evaluate the
effectiveness of this strategy.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in BengaluruEditing
by Matthew Lewis)
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