BOSTON (AP) – Massachusetts’ pooled coronavirus testing program for the state’s schools has tested nearly 159,000 people and found a positivity rate of lower than 1%.
State officials said Monday that the first-in-the nation program started last month has tested almost 23,000 pools of students and staff at 1,000 schools with a pool positivity rate of 0.76%.
State officials say they are not aware of any pools in which there was more than one positive individual, suggesting that there is extremely little evidence of in-school transmission of COVID-19 in Massachusetts.
The state also announced that it will cover the cost of pooled testing through the end of the school year.
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