Half-Mile Line Of Cars Greets People Seeking Christmas COVID Test At Cal Expo

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — If you deliberation stores were crowded 2 days earlier Christmas, you should person seen the enactment of cars astatine Cal Expo.

These weren’t last-minute shoppers, but radical wanting a COVID-19 trial earlier Christmas. The Cal Expo tract offered no-cost PCR and antigen tests successful a cavernous livestock gathering with nary assignment necessary.

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At 10:30 a.m. a half-mile enactment of cars reached each the mode retired onto Exposition Boulevard. Cal Expo constabulary were engaged mounting up postulation cones successful the racetrack parking batch successful an effort to forestall vehicles from blocking the engaged intersection extracurricular Gate D.

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People arriving mid-morning waited astir 2 hours to get their test.

A Cal Expo information defender said helium hadn’t seen a assemblage similar this earlier and speculated it was due to the fact that the tract would beryllium closed some Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and radical wanted to get tested earlier vacation gatherings.

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A unit subordinate moving for Curative, the trial vendor, said they’d had a proviso of 350 trial kits connected Wednesday but had tally retired successful the aboriginal afternoon. The unit subordinate said they’d ordered 2,000 kits for Thursday and expected adjacent that mightiness not beryllium capable to conscionable the precocious demand.