COVID-19 Testing Demand Reaches ‘Unprecedented' Level in Bay Area: Health Official

The request for COVID-19 investigating has reached "unprecedented" levels successful the Bay Area, a nationalist wellness serviceman successful San Jose said Monday.

At the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds investigating tract Monday, lines of vehicles wrapped astir the installation arsenic radical waited to get tested.

"Our extremity was to get up to 5,000 a time present astatine our largest drive-thru site, and past week, connected Thursday, we scheduled 5,000 appointments," Assistant Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jennifer Tong said. "That is up from person to 1,500 that we were doing earlier the omicron surge."

Tong said much investigating sites volition unfastened soon.

"We proceed to enactment connected expanding further," she said. "We person a site, a drive-thru site, successful San Martin that is region operated and volition beryllium opening a week from today."

NBC Bay Area's Robert Handa has much successful the video study above.