SAN DIEGO (KGTV) -- With some K-12 schools returning to in-person learning in San Diego County, more testing sites for school personnel will be available starting Thursday.
The County of San Diego is partnering with the San Diego County Office of Education to open four new testing locations dedicated to testing of school employees. The first two will open in Chula Vista and San Diego on Thursday. Another site will open in Del Mar on Friday, and the last will open in El Cajon on Monday.
South County school personnel (now open)
650 L St.
Chula Vista, 91911
10:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
North County school personnel (open 10/5)
2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd.
Del Mar, 92014
10:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
East County school personnel (open 10/2)
301 N. Mollison Ave.
El Cajon, 92021
10:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
Central San Diego school personnel (now open)
2375 Congress St.
San Diego, 92110
11:30 a.m.-7 p.m.
Capacity for all locations will be 500.
County officials also said school staff and children could be tested at the county’s other 41 sites.
Meanwhile, UC San Diego announced that only ten students tested positive for COVID-19 out of the 5,730 that moved into on-campus housing over ten days.
“I think they have a very strong plan in place at UCSD for their students,” said Dr. Eric McDonald, the medical director for the County Epidemiology and Immunization Branch.
The students that tested positive were moved into isolation housing provided by the university. They can move back into general campus housing when they are no longer infectious.
The school launched a dashboard on its website to show the current number of positive cases for staff and students both on and off-campus.
Students on campus will be tested for COVID-19 twice a month through the school year.