TVDSB, London Fire Department team up to sort 146K rapid COVID-19 tests

COVID-19 rapid antigen testing kits from the Ontario government. The tests are intended to serve staff and elementary students, as well as in-school child-care operators and bus drivers.

COVID-19 — LDCSB staff, volunteers spend hours sorting rapid tests after 3:30 a.m. delivery The province’s return to in-person learning had directed school boards to give each of the aforementioned recipients a pair of the tests to take home, leaving the TVDSB with a massive packaging operation ahead of it.Superintendent of business Cathy Lynd says the operation began by dividing the shipment into cases that contain 540 tests each.The tests were kept at the TVDSB’s warehouse and whoever volunteered to help would receive two cases each, along with the task of sorting 1,080 individual tests into “baggies of two.”“It’s in a spreadsheet, we have lots of people throughout the board who are helping us and we’re tracking who has them, who’s returning them, scheduling pickup times and return times,” Lynd said.“It’s been an experience.” Ontario students, staff to each get 2 rapid COVID tests when schools restart in person Despite more than 100 volunteers from TVDSB staff, more help was needed and that’s when a department that’s no stranger to helping out Londoners offered to step in.“The London Professional Fire Fighters’ Association had brought forward the idea to our chief, Chief Lori Hamer,” said Deputy Fire Chief Al Hunt.“So the association was saying, ‘We’d like to get involved,’ and we thought we’d like to get involved as well, so our chief reached out to the Thames Valley District School Board and said, ‘How can we help?'”Happy to assist our friends @TVDSB #teamwork #inthistogether @DirFisherTVDSB #ldnont @LPFFA https://t.co/sV17fcrL3I.