{"id":18564,"date":"2022-03-18T09:11:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T13:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=18564"},"modified":"2022-03-18T14:17:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T18:17:27","slug":"new-covid-19-weekly-testing-vendor-begins-monday-march-21-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=18564","title":{"rendered":"New COVID-19 Weekly Testing Vendor Begins Monday, March 21, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/cms\/lib\/VA01918616\/Centricity\/Domain\/4\/ACPS-Express-20220318-spanish.pdf\">en espa\u00f1ol (PDF)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/cms\/lib\/VA01918616\/Centricity\/Domain\/4\/ACPS-Express-20220318-amharic.pdf\">\u12a0\u121b\u122d\u129b (PDF)<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/cms\/lib\/VA01918616\/Centricity\/Domain\/4\/ACPS-Express-20220318-arabic.pdf\"> \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629 (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ACPS will transition to a new weekly COVID-19 testing vendor, Aegis, beginning Monday, March 21, 2022. While much of the process will remain the same as with our current vendor, Curative, there are a few differences for staff and families to note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The day of the week and time will be different for some schools and programs. Please go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/domain\/1613\">ACPS On-Site COVID Testing<\/a> website to see if your location has a new date and\/or time for weekly testing.<\/li>\n<li>Tests provided through Aegis will be PCR tests versus antigen\/rapid tests. This means that results will now be received anywhere from 24-72 hours after the test.<\/li>\n<li>Any individual who has had COVID-19 within the last 90 days should not participate in the testing with Aegis, as they may continue to test positive even though they are no longer contagious.<\/li>\n<li>Students and staff will only need to register one time to be tested weekly. There is no need to register each week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Families may register their students for testing at <a href=\"https:\/\/my.primary.health\/l\/alexandria-city-public-schools\">ACPS Students: Aegis COVID Screening Testing Registration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ACPS Staff may register for testing at <a href=\"https:\/\/my.primary.health\/l\/alexandria-city-public-schools-staff\">ACPS Staff: Aegis COVID Screening Testing Registration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For any challenges with the registration process, please email <a href=\"mailto:VASchools@testingworks.com\">VASchools@testingworks.com<\/a>. If you have questions regarding the COVID-19 Testing Program, please reach out to the ACPS Contact Tracing Team at <a href=\"mailto:contacttracing@acps.k12.va.us\">contacttracing@acps.k12.va.us<\/a> or 703-619-8082.<\/p>\n<p>ACPS is grateful to all of our committed staff and families who continue to show flexibility and resilience as we work together to contain the spread of this virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACPS will transition to a new weekly COVID-19 testing vendor, Aegis, beginning Monday, March 21, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":18521,"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-18564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acps"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 07:26:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18597,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18564\/revisions\/18597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}