COVID-19 Mobile Testing Unit Moving to Lompoc; County Reports 226 New Cases, 6 More Deaths
Santa Barbara County Public Health’s COVID-19 mobile testing unit will move from Santa Barbara to Lompoc starting next week. (Brooke Holland / Noozhawk photo) By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue
January 28, 2021
| 8:48 p.m.
To ramp up testing efforts and navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department’s mobile testing unit is moving from Santa Barbara to Lompoc.
Beginning Monday, community members can schedule an appointment to be tested at the mobile unit at Ryon Park in Lompoc.
The testing unit, at 800 W. Ocean Ave., will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday for a minimum of two weeks before it is moved to another location.
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The unincorporated areas of North County and Orcutt each reported 37 new cases. There were 22 new cases in the Santa Ynez Valley, 20 in the Montecito-Carpinteria Summerland area, and 14 in the unincorporated area of the Goleta Valley and Gaviota.
Isla Vista reported seven new cases, and 36 cases were still pending geographic locations.
There have been 19,953 confirmed cases in the county since the pandemic began.
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday reported an additional 23 inmates and six office personnel testing positive for COVID-19.
Four of the inmates tested positive during intake screening, while the remaining 19 are part of an outbreak in one of the housing units, according to Lt. Erik Raney.