San Mateo County Rolling Out COVID-19 Tests for Residents

The request for COVID-19 tests is precocious successful the Bay Area amid the omicron variant, but proviso remains debased for galore stores.

Now, San Mateo County officials are warring backmost by rolling retired vehicles afloat of COVID-19 tests for residents to travel by.

In Hillsborough, San Mateo County officials gave retired escaped COVID-19 tests each time Sunday and radical lined up for tons of reasons.

South San Francisco nonmigratory Breyanna Ransaw told NBC Bay Area’s Scott Budman Sunday that she was trying to bash the close happening earlier going to work.

"I saw my household connected Christmas and recovered retired they were exposed," she said.

Ransaw said that she drove to respective cause stores earlier Sunday but wasn’t capable to find a azygous COVID-19 test.

“I really went to 5 antithetic stores to find a accelerated trial but i'm expected to enactment contiguous and everybody's been sold out,” she said.

San Mateo County, which went from 40 recorded COVID-19 cases a time to hundreds of cases a time successful the past 2 weeks, is rolling retired escaped tests successful respective cities, admitting determination are not capable tests to spell around.

"There aren't galore pharmacies present that you tin spell and get self-tested,” said San Mateo County supervisor David Canepa. “That's problematic, that's highly problematic and truthful arsenic a county, we're going to person to thin successful and we whitethorn person to bash overmuch much much than we're doing now."

The tests are giving radical similar Ransaw a chance, for present to get portion of mind.

"I wanna beryllium responsible, you know. I emotion my co-workers and I would hatred to get them sick,” Ransaw said.

To spot a afloat database of COVID-19 investigating sites successful San Mateo County, visit smcgov.com/testing.