Colbert County Schools gets new tech to stop coronavirus spread

Colbert County Schools gets new tech to stop coronavirus spread

New information - the colbert county school system has deployed new technology to help the district combat the coronavirus.

Waay31's breken terry is at one of the district's high schools to show us this new process, breken?

As students walk through the doors of colbert county high school there is a face scanner that tells if a student has a normal temperature or not.

Nat pop normal temperature.

Satchel- and were done.

It clocks the time and the date.

Colbert county schools superintendent gale satchel showed us how the "go safe" works.

Satchel- it's free standing.

It takes the temperatures and the kids keep going.

However, it does keep a tally of where everyone is.

So, if a person has an abnormal temperature it will beep and the nurse will come and take care of that person.

Stachel said they have two of these in eight schools.

That cost about 50,000 but they used cares act funding to pay for the new technologies.

Satchel- we're not only most proud that they are here for the pandemic but also, for flu season so as students come in their temperature can still be taken.

Parents, guardians, anyone that comes on campus it can still take their temperatures.

If the machine detects an elevated temperature the person cannot come farther into the school and the school nurse will assess the student.

Visitors will be turned away if they have a higher than average temperature.

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