Confronted with exploding infection rates, Los Angeles school officials have ordered students and staff to undergo mandatory coronavirus testing before returning to campus after winter break on Jan. 10. The testing will make for an emergency, quick-turnaround strategy to identify cases before students and staff in the nation’s second-largest school district converge inside classrooms. District testing sites will be open Saturday, although testing results also can be obtained from elsewhere. Employees not already on duty this week would receive two hours’ pay to get the testing this week. The baseline testing would supplement ongoing efforts to test all students and staff every week — about 500,000 tests per week.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 03, 2022 23:26 UTC