The Spokane Regional Health District reported 554 new COVID-19 cases on Monday and more than 1,600 new cases over the weekend. “Hopefully by the end of the month we’ll have more options,” Hawkins said. The health district is in conversations with Curative, a COVID-testing company, about expanding its services in Spokane County. The district will target the distribution of these kits to those parts of the county where people are disproportionately impacted by the virus. The health district expects to receive 5,000 more rapid antigen testing kits from the Department of Health in the next couple of weeks. Hawkins said other libraries throughout the county still have kits, but the district has distributed all of the testing kits available to libraries. The Spokane Public Library locations offering the PCR testing kits ran out of them on Monday. The district also is considering having medical reserve corps volunteers work at the testing sites as well, said Kelli Hawkins, district spokesperson. The health district is hoping to increase the availability of testing soon, and the company is looking for more staff to accommodate the need for extending the hours and adding days the sites can do testing. The community testing sites, operated by Discovery Health MD, are open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. On Saturday, a record-high of 1,094 Spokane County residents tested positive for the virus. The demand for testing is not waning in Spokane County, but supply is running short.Īs the omicron variant of COVID-19 spreads, more people are testing positive or finding themselves exposed to the virus.
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