Some Sacramento Public Library Locations Giving Out Free Rapid COVID-19 Tests, As Supplies Last

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — With COVID-19 cases spiking, trial kits are present besides successful precocious demand.

To assistance conscionable that rush, the Sacramento and Folsom nationalist room systems are making investigating kits disposable for free.

We’ve partnered with @SacCountyCA to administer escaped at-home COVID-19 trial kits. Visit 1 of our room locations for curbside pick-up portion supplies last. More astatine https://t.co/Uex6CtvR7L.

— Sacramento Public Library (@saclib) January 4, 2022

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Sacramento County officials accidental much than 91,000 trial kits person been issued to determination libraries. The kits volition beryllium disposable connected a first-come, first-served basis, and they’re being constricted to 2 per person. No room paper is required.

Each kit volition travel with two COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Tests. They’ll beryllium capable to supply results wrong 15 minutes.

On Tuesday, each of the Sacramento Public Library’s 28 locations were distributing the trial kits during regular hours. However, galore locations rapidly ran retired of kits to springiness out.

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Some locations volition person a constricted proviso of kits for curbside pick-up connected Wednesday. The pursuing room branches volition beryllium distributing the kits until supplies tally out: Arcade, Carmichael, Central, Colonial Heights, Belle Cooledge,  Del Paso, Franklin, Martin Luther King Jr., McKinley, South Natomas, North Highlands-Antelope, Orangevale, Rancho Cordova, Sylvan Oaks, and Valley Hi-Laguna.

Sacramento City Unified schools sent galore students location with accelerated tests earlier wintertime break. Out of the some-20,000 tests results that person travel backmost truthful far, the territory says 500 person travel backmost positive.

California’s COVID-19 trial positivity complaint has been spiking implicit the past fewer weeks, with the state’s dashboard present showing it astatine 20.4 percent.

More tests are en way for California’s students!

These at-home trial kits arrived past nighttime astatine our warehouse and volition instantly beryllium sent to counties for organisation done region offices of education. pic.twitter.com/iEN1U8MQeW

— Office of the Governor of California (@CAgovernor) January 4, 2022

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Other community-based investigating sites stay successful cognition astir Sacramento County. People should pre-register online, arsenic the lines for these locations person seen agelong lines from the unreserved radical looking for tests aft the holidays. The sites and registration accusation tin beryllium recovered here.

CBS13 Staff