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62,000 LAUSD Students and Staff Test Positive for COVID-19 as In-Person Classes Resume

By Micaela Ricaforte

 

LOS ANGELES—Students in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) will return to campus on Jan. 11 amid a surge in COVID-19 cases—with 62,000 LAUSD students and employees testing positive for the virus as of Jan. 10.

All students and staff are required to upload proof of a negative COVID-19 test to the Daily Pass mobile application before returning to campus, and thousands of at-home test kits were given out by the district over the weekend.

LAUSD’s website reports about 414,000 tests administered as of Jan. 10 with about 62,000 positive tests—a 15 percent positivity rate.

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