The demand for COVID-19 testing has reached “unprecedented” ranges within the Bay Space, a public well being officer in San Jose stated Monday.
On the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds testing web site Monday, strains of autos wrapped across the facility as folks waited to get examined.
“Our aim was to rise up to five,000 a day right here at our largest drive-thru web site, and final week, on Thursday, we scheduled 5,000 appointments,” Assistant Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jennifer Tong stated. “That’s up from nearer to 1,500 that we had been doing earlier than the omicron surge.”
Tong stated extra testing websites will open quickly.
“We proceed to work on increasing additional,” she stated. “We’ve a web site, a drive-thru web site, in San Martin that’s county operated and will probably be opening every week from in the present day.”
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