California National Guard Helping Bay Area COVID Testing Sites

The agelong lines for COVID investigating continued crossed the Bay Area and authorities connected Monday, but assistance to effort and velocity the process up besides arrived successful the sanction of the California National Guard.

Gov. Gavin Newsom connected Friday activated members of the California National Guard to enactment dozens of COVID-19 investigating sites successful the authorities amid the omicron surge. More than 200 members person been deployed astatine 50 investigating sites astir the state.

In the Bay Area, members of the California National Guard suited up to assistance adjacent successful Brentwood.

"The ngo is to assistance determination a small much efficiently and conscionable assistance with the caller updated microorganism variants that we're getting," said Staff Sgt. Pauline Guerrero with the 144th Fighter Wing Air National Guard. "There's a batch much request for testing."

Newsom besides said much at-home tests are connected the mode and the California National Guard volition assistance present them.