School boards offering COVID-19 testing in LaSalle on Saturday

Seventeen school communities in LaSalle and Amherstburg are eligible for COVID-19 testing at a clinic this weekend.

The testing is voluntary and is only available to in-person students, staff and children enrolled at school daycareswho are not experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, the region's four school boards said in a newsrelease.

The clinic is being held Saturday atSandwich Secondary School at 7050 Malden Rd., LaSalle, and the testing is being provided by the vendor Lifelabs.

The clinicopens at 9 a.m., and while no appointment is required,time slotshave been assigned to surnames alphabetically.

Students and staff at the following schools are eligible:

• Sandwich Secondary School
• St. Thomas of Villanova High School
• Western Secondary School
• General Amherst High School
• Holy Cross Catholic School
• Sandwich West Public School
• Sacred Heart Catholic School
• LaSalle Public School
• St. Joseph's Catholic Elementary School
• Prince Andrew Public School
• Stella MarisCatholic School
• Malden Central Public School
• Amherstburg Public School
• Anderdon Public School
• cole lmentaire catholique Mgr-Augustin-Caron
• cole lmentaire catholique St-Jean-Baptiste
• cole lmentaire catholique Ste-Ursule.

In Windsor-Essex, one school outbreak is ongoing, atEcole secondaire catholique l'Essorin Tecumseh, though students across the province have not been in the classroom since before the April break.