A Los Angeles school district — the 2nd largest in the US — says it will test all 600,000 students for COVID-19

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• The Los Angeles Unified School District started testing its students and employees for the coronavirus on Monday.
• It plans to test all its students and staff members throughout the upcoming school year. The district serves about about 600,000 students and 75,000 staff members.
• "Extraordinary circumstances call for extraordinary actions," Superintendent Austin Beutner said in a Sunday statement. The research will be used to "study the impact and effects," he said.
• The district covers 1,386 schools spread over a 710 square-mile area. It is the second largest school district in the US.
• Because the rate of transmission in Los Angeles is more than twice the state recommendation for reopening schools, the school year began remotely this week.
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A school district in Los Angeles — the second largest in the US — began a monumental effort to test nearly 700,000 of its students and staff on Monday as the school year begins and authorities weigh whether to reopen campuses.

"Extraordinary circumstances call for extraordinary actions," Austin Beutner, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, said in a statement published Sunday.

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