In line with its goal to safely and fully open all of the CNMI’s public schools, the CNMI Public School System through the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. will offer antigen testing for COVID-19.

Students will be tested using the Abbot BinaxNOW test kit, which reports results after 15 minutes and is a minimally invasive nasal swab compared to the COVID-19 PCR test. Registering for testing, and screening testing schedules for all schools can be found at covidtesting.chcc.health.

According to CHCC’s chief of ancillary services Jesse Tudela on Monday, the school-based COVID-19 screening testing is an opt-in service that mainly serves to allow CHCC to “conduct active surveillance on a highly transmissible virus.” When asked how often on-campus students will be tested, Tudela said it is up to the student’s respective schools to determine how often they want their students tested for COVID-19.

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