St. Johns County School District office successful downtown St. Augustine.

St. Johns County School District office successful downtown St. Augustine. (Copyright 2021 by WJXT News4Jax - All rights reserved.)

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – The St. Johns County School District has hired a staffing institution that volition assistance with interaction tracing needs successful schools.

A territory spokesperson said it hired the institution successful portion due to the fact that the Florida Department of Health was not capable to support up with demands of interaction tracing successful schools.

“We besides request further assistance to behaviour interaction tracing owed to the measurement we are seeing among students,” the territory told News4Jax connected Tuesday.

As of Monday, determination were 462 full pupil COVID-19 cases reported successful the territory and 72 involving staff. A full of 925 unit and students person been forced to quarantine since schoolhouse started a period ago.

Maxim Healthcare Staffing Services Inc. volition commencement moving with the territory connected Monday and supply 3 aesculapian assistants, six licensed applicable nurses and a supervising registered caregiver to execute interaction tracing services.

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Over the archetypal period of school, parents person been captious of the interaction tracing process successful the district. Some St. Johns County parents have adjacent started Facebook groups to pass different parents astir coronavirus cases successful schools due to the fact that they said it sometimes takes days to beryllium notified by the Department of Health.

The Maxim employees volition enactment Monday done Friday and beryllium paid betwixt $35 and $55 an hour. Federal backing volition screen the costs, the territory said. The St. Johns County School Board is expected to o.k. the backing during a committee meeting connected Tuesday evening.

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According to the presumption of the woody with Maxim, the institution volition enactment with the territory for 1 year, but should the needs of the territory diminish implicit the people of the schoolhouse year, the statement allows the fig of unit to beryllium reduced with 14 calendar days’ notice, oregon for the statement to beryllium terminated with 30 days’ notice.

During a committee store past week, Superintendent Tim Forson noted the skyrocketing cases successful the territory -- and acknowledged that if the concern worsens, classrooms oregon schools would person to temporarily modulation to virtual learning.

Ultimately, the territory said it’s pursuing the state’s determination tree connected however and erstwhile to quarantine students.

Right now, the territory doesn’t person plans to enforce a disguise mandate for students, but the territory is requiring masks for employees for different 15 days.

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News4Jax attempted to interaction the wellness section successful St. Johns County but it did not instantly respond to our questions.

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