Health Officials Throughout Delaware Valley Working To Ramp Up Mass Testing Of Coronavirus

Matt Petrillo reports.

THE AT LEAST 150 PEOPLEHAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WHENCOVID-19 IN PENNSYLVANIA.HEALTH OFFICIALSTHROUGHOUT OUR AREA AREWORKING TO RAMP UP MASSTESTING OF THE COVID-19CORONAVIRUS.MATT PETRILLO AT SIT BENZ BANKPARK IN SOUTH PHILADELPHIAWITH THE VERY LATEST ON WHAT'SHAPPENING THERE, MAT IN THE.UKEE, HEALTH OFFICIALS TELLUS TESTING IS KEY TO STOPPINGTHIS SPREAD.BEHIND ME, WHAT WILL BEPHILADELPHIA'S FIRST MASSTESTING SITE SIMILAR SITES AREPOPPING UP, ALL OVER OUR AREA.FROM ABOVE, CHOPPER THREEFOUND CREWS SETTING UP A MASSTESTING SITE ON THE BLACKWOODCAMPUS OF CAMDEN COUNTYCOLLEGE.ANOTHER MASS TESTING SITE ISGOING UP IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY,AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY'S AMBLERCAMPUS.THIS DRIVE-THRU FACILITY ISEXPECTED TO OPEN NEXT WEEK.WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITHOUR PARTNERS TO ESTABLISH ADRIVE-THRU TESTING LOCATION INUPPER DUBLIN TOWNSHIP.WE WILL BE RELEASINGADDITIONAL DETAILS AS SOON ASTHEY ARE CONFIRMED.ONCE OPENED, THE COUNTY HAS ALIST OF CRITICAL WORK FORCEPERSONNEL, INCLUDING FIRSTRESPONDERS, THAT WILL BETESTED FIRST.AND IN PHILADELPHIA, CREWSHAVE BEEN WORKING AROUND THECLOCK TO GET THIS SITE BYCITIZENS BANK PARK UP ANDRUNNING.SEVERAL LARGE TENTS ARE BEINGSET UP BY PA TASK FORCE ONE.THAT SITE WILL BE ONE OFMANY SITES, HOW MUCH, THAT AREAVAILABLE HERE IN THE CITY.NO WORD YET WHEN PHILLYOPEN ITS MASS TESTINGLOCATION, BUT WHILE TESTS WILLBE FREE TO PATIENTS, THERE ISA LACK OF TESTS.SO TO GET ONE, PEOPLE HAVE TOSHOW SYMPTOMS LIKE HAVING ADRY COUGH OR HIGH FEVER.THIS TEST IS NOT GOING TOBE FOR PEOPLE THAT WALK IN,YOU NEED AN ORDER ORPRESCRIPTION TO GO TO THESESITES.AND AGAIN, WHEN THISTESTING SITE ITSELF SOUTHPHILLY IS OPEN, IT IS STILL UPIN THE AIR.BUT MONTCO EXPECTED TO OPENNEXT WEEK, REPORTING LIVE IN