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The City of San Antonio says a surge in confirmed COVID-19 cases – 382 new cases reported on Saturday –has led to an increase in demand for tests.
The Freeman Coliseum testing site is booked through Tuesday, and the location’s registration system will be shut down until Monday.
The website is still up with information about other sites, and the Texas Military Department has a testing location at Atkins in East Bexar County on Sunday, June 21.
The city says testing capacity will increase to more than 5,000 per day starting Monday.Most sites still require pre-registration, but a free walk-up location opens Monday through Wednesday at Jordan Middle School.
Saturday’s advisory came hours after the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center reported one of its employees had tested positive for COVID-19.They said the team member had last worked at the Northeast Donor Room on June 13 and June 14 and at the Westover Hills Donor Room on June 15.The Center added that it asked almost a dozen other workers who may have had contact with the individual to be tested for the virus.None have shown any symptoms.
Saturday also saw a significant jump in positive cases statewide.

According to state data, on Friday, June 19, Texas reported 103,305 positive cases.On Saturday, June 20, the state reported a jump of 4,430 to 107,735 cases – a new record for COVID-19 in the Lone Star State.
The high number of cases and hospitalizations have sent an electrifying alarm throughout San Antonio and Bexar County.That concern was vividly expressed on Friday, when San Antonio Ron Nirenberg, Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff and other officials broke routine and held a Friday news conference instead of just posting the latest county data.
“[Judge Wolff] and I are concerned enough to give you a warning,” Nirenberg said, speaking to the media and the public.
Nirenberg stressed Father’s Day weekend would not be a good time to be around groups of people outside of one’s household.
The three biggest locations related to infection are bars, gyms and car lots, according to hospital officials.
Assistant City Manager Dr.Colleen Bridger said bars were her single biggest worry.
“Bars worry me greatly,” she said.“It’s irresponsible when people go in there and act like COVID-19 doesn’t exist.”
Wolff said he hoped Gov.

Greg Abbott will work with the Alcoholic Beverage Commission to pull liquor licenses from bars that aren’t following safety guidelines.
There were 382 more positive cases reported on Saturday , bringing the total number in the area to 6,344.The death toll remained at 96.
On Saturday, there were at least 327 COVID-19 patients in San Antonio-area hospitals, up five from Friday.Of those patients, 231 were in intensive care and 96 were on ventilators.
The percentage of positive cases has also increased to 19% — a significant jump from 9% earlier this week.
In response to the increased testing demand, walk-up testing sites will now be offered six days starting Monday.

Testing sites will be closed Sunday for Father’s Day.
Wolff’s executive order requiring businesses to enforce mask policies also goes into effect on Monday.
When asked if commercial entities could lose their certificates of occupancy for not following executive orders, Nirenberg said yes.
“It continues to be deadly,” Nirenberg said.

“Do not let your guard down.”
Daily cases have continued to increase weeks after Memorial Day celebrations in Texas.Nirenberg said that he believed the state’s reopening phases happened too quickly in order for city and county leaders to properly learn from the data.
Data also shows shifting demographics of COVID-19 patients.Around mid-April, the racial makeup of patients almost mirrored the makeup of San Antonio’s population.
Now, about 17% of all COVID-19 patients who have died are Black — even though they only make up 9% of all cases and 8.5% of the city’s population.Texas
As of Saturday, there have been 107,735 total confirmed cases across Texas — with Harris, Dallas and Tarrant counties reporting the highest numbers of cases.

Bexar came in fourth place.
The number of COVID-19 patients in Texas hospitals has been on an upward trajectory since Memorial Day, rising from around 1,500 to more than 3,200 during the past three weeks.
According to the Texas Department of State Health Services , there are currently more than 3,200 patients with COVID-19 in Texas hospitals.
Texas began allowing its first businesses to reopen May 1.National and International
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