UVA offers numerous resources to support students, faculty and staff through the challenges of a new semester and the particular challenges of a pandemic. Here are some you should know about.
On Friday, UVA announced expanded methods of population testing, including more asymptomatic testing for students, a program using saliva samples to screen large numbers of students, and wastewater analysis.
UVA Health is processing between 300 and 400 COVID-19 tests per day, and currently has the capacity to handle up to 800 per day. It expects to double that capacity over the next month.
Learn more about how faculty and staff in the Academic Division can order self-administered test kits, as well as asymptomatic testing opportunities for UVA Health employees and employees of nine major contractors working on Grounds.
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