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Once the largest coronavirus testing center in Los Angeles County, now will become a huge vaccination center against the disease thanks to the county’s efforts to speed up access to vaccines, according to information provided by the authorities.
The test center located in the parking lot of the emblematic Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles , will make this Monday its last day as the largest test site in the city and now will be used to mass vaccinate county health workers , then the next priority group of essential workers.
Although the daily test capacity will be seen slightly affected, the authorities assure that the change will triple the current vaccination capacity , which has been classified as slow, something that the governor of California recognized , Gavin Newsom in recent days.
This week @ LACity supported @ LAPublicHealth in opening vaccination sites across the city for health care workers. The vaccine will be available to other groups of essential workers and more Angelenos in the weeks and months to come. Hope is coming to end this pandemic. pic.twitter.com/2NmSMKUbz3
– MayorOfLA (@MayorOfLA) January 10, 2021
“ This week @LACITY together with @LAPublicHealth will be opening several vaccination sites to throughout the city for healthcare workers. The vaccine will be available to another group of essential and more Los Angeles workers in the coming weeks and months to come , “said Mayor Eric Garcetii in a message posted on Twitter on Sunday.
Data from the Los Angeles mayor’s office assure that in the facilities of the popular stadium could be vaccinated up to 12,000 people daily. Since its activation as a test center last May 2020, they have been carried out on site more than one million virus tests.
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