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Updated: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - 8:21am
City of Phoenix
Phoenix plans to add a second mobile testing van along with a permanent location for people to get COVID-19 tests.
Phoenix plans to add a second mobile testing van along with a permanent location for people to get COVID-19 tests.
When Phoenix launched its mobile testing van in mid-August, it expected to test between 250 and 500 people per day, but Assistant City Manager Milton Dohoney said they’ve been testing over a thousand per day, sometimes 2,000. So the city plans to add a second van.
“This particular second van will provide multiple day stops so that means we’ll go into a red area and instead of a one-day testing, we may be in an area for multiple days because we’re trying to bend the curve,” he said.