{"id":18112,"date":"2021-12-17T11:27:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T16:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=18112"},"modified":"2021-12-17T12:18:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:18:13","slug":"winter-break-covid-19-health-and-safety-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=18112","title":{"rendered":"Winter Break: COVID-19 Health and Safety Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"\u201dACPS\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/cms\/lib\/VA01918616\/Centricity\/Domain\/4\/ACPS-Express-12.17.21-Spanish.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">en espa\u00f1ol (PDF)<\/a> | <a title=\"\u201dACPS\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/cms\/lib\/VA01918616\/Centricity\/Domain\/4\/ACPS-Express-12.17.21-Amharic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u12a0\u121b\u122d\u129b (PDF)<\/a> | <a title=\"\u201dACPS\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/cms\/lib\/VA01918616\/Centricity\/Domain\/4\/ACPS-Express-12.17.21-Arabic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u0628\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629 (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we head into winter break, ACPS would like to remind everyone of the critical health and safety measures needed to reduce the transmission of COVID-19. Here are some tips on health and safety from the ACPS Department of Student Services and Equity:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Follow <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/travelers\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CDC travel precautions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> over break.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wear a mask indoors during travel<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consider making an appointment at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/curative.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Curative.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Alexandria for free COVID-19 testing following your return from travel.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consider <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexandriava.gov\/Vaccines\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">getting vaccinated<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or receiving a booster if eligible.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have a care plan in place if your student has to stay home for any reason on short notice.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make sure your student is bringing home their device, charger, and instructional materials daily.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Check your email and answer calls over winter break.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ACPS will continue to notify close contacts of COVID-19 cases in ACPS facilities over the winter break. Because people may be traveling, notice may come through an email or a phone call.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Alexandria Health Department will offer COVID-19 vaccines at Alexandria City High School (3330 King St) on Sat., Dec. 18 from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. It will offer all doses of Pfizer vaccine for ages 5 and older, including the booster, as well as Moderna third doses and boosters.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we head into winter break, ACPS would like to remind everyone of the critical health and safety measures needed to reduce the transmission of COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":18113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acps"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 02:03:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18134,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18112\/revisions\/18134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}