Drive-thru Testing St. Joseph (5-12-20)

Drive-thru Testing St. Joseph (5-12-20)

Ramp up coronavirus testing... good evening, i'm bob cervera.

The city wants to test thousands of people -- and will be offering st.

Joseph residents their first opportunity for drive-thru testing.

Health officials are planning it for this weekend.

Kq2's kilee thomas is here now in-studio with more.

<<(kilee) cases have been on the rise here in buchanan county ever since hundreds of workers tested positive at triumph foods... the county now ranks behind major cities like kansas city and st.

Louis for the most confirmed cases in missouri... numbers from missouri's show me strong recovery plan show that buchanan county is one of the fastest growing counties in covid-19 cases in the state... a 7 day period shows a 661% growth in new cases... in counties of less than one hundred thousand people buchanan county ranks third in highest number of tests conducted st.

Joseph health department says this weekend's upcoming mass testing will give the state a better idea of how the virus has spread here in buchanan county(sot debra bradley/city of st.

Joseph health dir.: ) "the state health department has identified st.

Joe as a hot spot due to triumph foods doing their focused testing.

The state requested that we do a community based testing so that they can see if it's the entire community that is a hot spot or if it's related to the nature of the working environment."(kilee) two thousand state tests will be administered saturday and sunday at mosaic life care..

The drive thru style runs from 8 am - 4 pm...where a nasal swab will be taken... anyone over the age of 18, no symptoms required, can be tested for free.... mosaic says test results should be available 72 hours after testing... mosaic is asking residents to preregister for the event...to register... go to health-dot-mo-dot- gov/communitytest or call (877) 435-8411.

You can also find that information in our website -- kq2.com reporting in-thomas kq2 news.>>