{"id":40247,"date":"2021-12-28T20:03:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T20:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/?p=40247"},"modified":"2021-12-28T20:03:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T20:03:30","slug":"nyc-to-limit-classroom-closures-prioritize-ramped-up-testing-for-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/nyc-to-limit-classroom-closures-prioritize-ramped-up-testing-for-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC to limit classroom closures, prioritize ramped-up testing for schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 75px;height: 75px;border-radius: 50%;background: url(https:\/\/nordot-res.cloudinary.com\/c_limit,w_200,h_200,f_auto,q_auto:eco\/ch\/units\/721958051058909184\/profile_1.jpg);background-position: center;background-size: cover;vertical-align: middle\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 5px;font-size: 14px;font-weight: bold;vertical-align: middle\">Published by <br \/>Reuters<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px\"><\/div>\n<p>By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) &#8211; New York City will eliminate its current policy of quarantining entire classrooms exposed to the coronavirus and will instead prioritize a ramped-up testing program so that asymptomatic students testing negative for COVID-19 can remain in school, officials said on Tuesday. The step shows health officials are increasing the focus on testing and trying to avoid long isolation periods. A day earlier, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shortened the recommended isolation time for Americans with asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 to five days from th&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"nordot-read-more \" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nordot.app\/848638128184328192?c=819177386184916992\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published by Reuters By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) &#8211; New York City will eliminate its current policy of quarantining entire classrooms exposed to the coronavirus and will instead prioritize a ramped-up testing program so that asymptomatic students testing negative for COVID-19 can remain in school, officials said on Tuesday. The step shows health officials are increasing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/nyc-to-limit-classroom-closures-prioritize-ramped-up-testing-for-schools\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NYC to limit classroom closures, prioritize ramped-up testing for schools&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":40249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40248,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40247\/revisions\/40248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}