SF Residents Rush to Get COVID-19 Tests as Many Return to School, Work Monday

With the omicron variant driving COVID-19 cases up, galore San Francisco residents were waiting successful enactment to get tested Sunday.

The enactment for COVID-19 investigating wrapped astir the artifact successful the city's Mission District.

“We are determination but we’re prepared to springiness up to 800 tests,” said Susana Rojas with Latino Task Force.

Rojas said that request keeps increasing with concerns astir omicron variant arsenic radical instrumentality to mean beingness aft the vacation break.

“I deliberation if parents are trying to get their kids tested earlier they spell backmost to school," she said. "Also, radical are proceeding of adjacent one’s radical oregon radical that they got unneurotic with that they came backmost affirmative are coming to get tested. Others person traveled and they are coming back, and others are feeling sick."

People volition get the results of their accelerated tests wrong hours.

Some families were thrilled to person a COVID-19 investigating enactment astatine San Francisco Unified School District, arsenic galore students instrumentality to schoolhouse Monday.

“It’s really, truly hard to find accelerated trial astatine Walgreens oregon immoderate of the different pharmacies which we were hoping to beryllium capable to bash and erstwhile the schoolhouse territory came retired with the announcement that they person these disposable we jumped astatine it due to the fact that we privation everybody to beryllium safe,” said San Francisco nonmigratory Michael Stafford.

The territory partnered up to bash astir 1000 accelerated tests and added that respective 100 much were disposable to instrumentality home.

“We person done everything we tin arsenic rapidly arsenic we can. We expect tests to get from the authorities but that won’t beryllium aboriginal this week. So, we took the accidental to spouse with Safer Together and Department of Health to bash what we could arsenic rapidly arsenic we could,” said Vincent Matthews, superintendent of SFUSD.

Rapid investigating volition proceed this week and it’s 1 of the tools they’re using.

“We been astir going to investigating sites. Some of them are similar 'Oh, we invited walk-ins' but erstwhile you spell determination they are retired of kits," said San Francisco nonmigratory Theresa Ho.

Ho and her household struck retired astatine sites and pharmacies recently. Ho added she was blessed to yet got instrumentality tests location for her children.

“We conscionable privation to instrumentality precaution close and marque definite the kids spell to schoolhouse they’re negative," she said.