SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Some sites are open for COVID-19 testing on a rolling basis, but this is the first time the San Jose Evergreen Community College Extension at Milpitas hosted a pop-up coronavirus testing site.
Testing started at 11 a.m. and will run until 5:30 p.m. Tuesday with no appointments needed. They have enough tests to accommodate 500 people.
Santa Clara county has averaged more than 110,000 tests a week since the post-thanksgiving surge of COVID-19 cases.
Meanwhile, the county now reports 607 COVID-related deaths since the start of the pandemic, more than any other Bay Area county.
Julian Glover spoke to the nurse running Tuesday's clinic and he said these pop-up testing clinics throughout the county are crucial to making it easier for people to access a test.