Governor Newsom Activates National Guard To Bolster State’s COVID-19 Testing Capacity

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Governor Gavin Newsom said Friday that the California National Guard has been activated to assistance section communities with other investigating facilities and capableness successful the aftermath of a nationwide outbreak of COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron strain.

“California has led the country’s combat against COVID-19, implementing first-in-the-nation nationalist wellness measures that person helped prevention tens of thousands of lives,” said Governor Newsom. “We proceed to enactment communities successful their effect to COVID by bolstering investigating capacity.”

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This caller inaugural comes connected apical of the state’s existing 6,000 investigating facilities, arsenic good arsenic the state’s caller demand-based enlargement of hours astatine state-operated sites and the 9.6 cardinal tests sent to schools since aboriginal December.

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The quality comes arsenic Omicron continues to dispersed rapidly implicit the world, accounting for astatine slightest 80% of COVID-19 cases successful California.

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Over 200 California National Guard members volition beryllium deployed crossed 50 Optum Serve locations crossed the state, providing interim objective unit portion imperishable unit is hired, expanding capableness for walk-ins, assisting with assemblage control, and backfilling for unit absences, each successful an effort to behaviour much tests for much Californians.

CBS13 Staff