Roughly 500 tests will be available each day at a mobile coronavirus testing kiosk opening Thursday at Union Station in Los Angeles.
L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said that she is “cautiously hopeful” that cases will not spike again, as was the caseand the Fourth of July weekend. But she reminded residents to take proactive steps in the event they become exposed to the virus.
“If you are potentially exposed to COVID-19 over the holiday weekend, I’m encouraging you to get tested,” she said Wednesday.Ferrer advised people to get tested if they were in a crowd, especially without face coverings, or came into contact with a person who was sick or tested positive for the virus.
The county’s expansion of testing and contact tracing also includes the launch of the SafePass mobile app to alert residents who have come in contact with someone who tested positive for the virus.
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