The City School District of Albany is partnering with Albany County and Whitney M. Young Jr. Health Center to help families more easily access COVID-19 rapid testing with confirmed cases of the disease at high levels in the Capital Region.
Albany High School will be one of two new rapid-testing sites in the county at which school nurses can make appointments for K-12 students who have COVID-19 symptoms and are unable to attend school, Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy announced Monday.
The Albany High location will be open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1-3:30 p.m., in the Whitney Young mobile unit in the school’s North Main Avenue parking lot. Please note that this is not a walkup testing site. School nurses will coordinate all appointments with families.
“We are fortunate to have two outstanding partners in Albany County and Whitney Young, and we are glad to have this opportunity to assist them in making COVID-19 testing even more accessible to our families,” said Superintendent Kaweeda G. Adams.
The Albany High location, as well as the new Albany County Cornell Cooperative Extension rapid-testing site in Voorheesville, will be available to K-12 students. School nurses will coordinate appointments with students’ families.
Students who receive negative results in rapid testing will need to get a follow-up, lab-based test to confirm the result before they are permitted to return to school in-person.
You can visit the Albany County website for a complete list of current testing sites as well as other information and resources related to COVID-19.
