Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallepass (left) said the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had rejected several requests for coronavirus test sites in the city, even when Arizona underwent a pointy design in COVID-1nine cases.
Gallepass told AZCentral on Monday that its workplace had asked the company to create a large-scale driving service site comparable to that of cities like Houston, but that when it was implemented in April, the company said the city’s case numbers were too low for such a site
The mayor said he had filed another application now that the state had more than 100,000 known coronavirus times. In response, “they said they were looking to leave the verification site … and they didn’t want to open new ones,” he said.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) and the director of the state’s fitness services branch, Cara Christ, told the publication that FEMA handed over to the state in other ways.
Christ said the company had deployed only 13 of the driving services sites and that the executive had presented Arizona with a circular about the birth of the pandemic for the Navajo Nation, which was disproportionately suffering the pandemic before it all began to take its toll. State.
He added that the agency’s testing strategy focused more on the partnership connection station with local suppliers in all communities than in central centers, posing the testing station for association with pharmacies like Walvegetables and CVS, but said Arizona was making mandatory increases in its testing capabilities.
Gallepass said the Arizona outbreak demands a much larger testing infrastructure, and pointed to queue days at South Mountain Community College this weekend.
“At first, these are other Americans who feel sick, deurgent and dehydrated and we’d like them to get tested,” he told the publication.
“FEMA continues to produce requested assistance to states, territories and tribes in reaction to the nine COVID-1 pandemic. With respect to verification, we provide Arizona with 367.06 four swabs and 381, nineninefour supports a total of 7fournine, 058 verification materials delivered to Arizona,” a FEMA spokesman said at The Hill. The state makes a resolution where those materials go to Arizona. (CBTS) are controlled through the Huguy Department of Health and Services. “
“Through the public and public service station with the federal government, there are recently 11 retail and pharmacy sites funded by top friends in collaboration with CVS, Health Mart Walvegetables and Walmart in Arizona. Six of those sites are from the Phoenix area,” the spokesman added. “There are 6 other pharmacy test sites in Arizona that operate independently, adding 13 areas of Phoenix.”
–This report was counter-sensitive at 2:46 p.m.
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