By Joshua Huff, sports
BIRMINGHAM — UAB Medicine revealed that it will deploy new COVID-19 mobile testing sites to communities within Jefferson County beginning this week.
UAB said that not all patients are able to come to its downtown testing site, so it needed a different way to test the community. The program hopes to be able to conduct between 50-100 tests per day. This news follows Gov. Kay Ivey announcing, this past week, that Alabama had tested just 1% of the state’s population, which, at the time, was well below the threshold of beginning to reopen the economy, per federal guidelines.
The mobile testing will begin this week at Bush Hills’ Central Park Christian School, in Birmingham, and move to Cathedral of the Cross, in Center Point, on Friday, May 1. The times for both locations will be from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. UAB Medicine urges those with symptoms such as fever, cough and shortness of breath to call (205) 975-CV19 to receive additional information.
As of Monday, there have been 834 positive COVID-19 cases with 34 deaths in Jefferson County.