NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Amid a million New York City public school students returning to the classroom for the first time in 18 months, the Department of Education's COVID-19 screening website is up and running after tech issues plagued the website early Monday morning.
The city's website either failed to load, loaded partially or loaded very slowly for users.
Hm, who could have anticipated that 1 million students trying to log on to the NYC DOE health screening site at the same time might overload the system? pic.twitter.com/Veb6IRUrfp
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"All DOE employees, students, families and visitors seeking to enter DOE buildings must complete a health screening before entering DOE facilities," the website says.
The screening must be completed each day of arrival, with the screener resetting midnight of each day.
Staff and students will be asked to provide the results of their screening before entering a building either on their phone or printed out.
Despite the highly contagious delta variant, New York City will limit remote learning options to situations when quarantining is necessary due to COVID exposure.
"Our kids need to be in school and it's unbelievable that some kids haven't seen the inside of a classroom for a year and a half," he said Thursday. "There are massive consequences to that, including health care consequences. The healthiest, best place for kids to be is in school."
Masks-use will be enforced per guidance from the state's Department of Health.
