LOS ANGELES—Students in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) will return to campus on Jan. 11 amid a surge in COVID-19 cases—with 62,000 LAUSD students and employees testing positive for the virus as of Jan. 10. All students and staff are required to upload proof of a negative COVID-19 test to the Daily Pass mobile application before returning to campus, and thousands of at-home test kits were given out by the district over the weekend. LAUSD’s website reports about 414,000 tests administered as of Jan. 10 with about 62,000 positive tests—a 15 percent positivity rate. Interim Superintendent Megan Reilly said last week that though the district’s positivity rate is high, it is still below Los Angeles County’s 20.6 percent overall. “The layered protections we have in school, it works to create a safer environment than what you’re seeing out in the community,” Reilly said. Students who test positive must …