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State creates online tool to track COVID-19 in schools

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State creates online tool to track COVID-19 in schools
State creates online tool to track COVID-19 in schools

He website will help school more quickly report close contacts of a positive case.

It's opened a new online reporting tool.

The website will help schools more quickly report close contacts of a positive case.

Her dr. kristina box says the state has been gathering school rosters and other data.

This allowed them to create a dashboard with between 20 to 30 thousand student records.

Tuesday, they got another 500-thousand from the department of education.

She says more are expected in the future.

"having these records will help us to quickly match positive cases among students to schools and insure schools and local health departments are notified promp."

The isdh is also building a portal to track positive cases among students, staff and teachers.

Box says schools will have to update it every 24 hours.

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