DIRECTIONS: A sign with directions stands in front of a screening station for walk-ins taking part in a pilot expanded testing program held at the Astumbo Gym on Saturday morning. John O'Connor/The Guam Daily Post
ASSESSMENT: Nurse Assistant Marie Comia assesses drivers on the way to the Astumbo Gym during an expanded testing pilot program held Saturday morning. John O'Connor/The Guam Daily Post
FORM: Linda Unpingco-DeNorcey, director of the Department of Public Health and Social Services, shows the form being filled out as participants to a pilot expanded testing program are assessed before entering the sampling site at the Astumbo Gym. John O'Connor/The Guam Daily Post
ARM BUMP: Linda Unpingco-DeNorcey, director of the Department of Public Health and Social Services, greets Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero with an elbow bump as they meet at the pilot expanded testing site at the Astumbo Gym on April 24. John O'Connor/The Guam Daily Post
DRIVE THRU: A health official speaks to drive-in participants to the expanded testing pilot program at the Astumbo Gym in April. The community testing scheduled for tomorrow, Oct. 31, has been postponed due to the anticipated bad weather associated with Tropical Depression Atsani. Post file photo.
SAMPLES: Health workers bag samples taken during nasal swabbing of drive-in participants at a community test site in April. John O'Connor/The Guam Daily Post
TESTING: A man winces in discomfort as he undergoes nasal swabbing at a pilot testing site at the Astumbo gym on April 24. A Guam patient who was released from isolation after recovering from COVID-19 has tested positive again. John O'Connor/The Guam Daily Post
DIRECTIONS: A sign with directions stands in front of a screening station for walk-ins taking part in a pilot expanded testing program held at the Astumbo Gym on Saturday morning. John O'Connor/The Guam Daily Post
ASSESSMENT: Nurse Assistant Marie Comia assesses drivers on the way to the Astumbo Gym during an expanded testing pilot program held Saturday morning. John O'Connor/The Guam Daily Post
FORM: Linda Unpingco-DeNorcey, director of the Department of Public Health and Social Services, shows the form being filled out as participants to a pilot expanded testing program are assessed before entering the sampling site at the Astumbo Gym. John O'Connor/The Guam Daily Post
ARM BUMP: Linda Unpingco-DeNorcey, director of the Department of Public Health and Social Services, greets Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero with an elbow bump as they meet at the pilot expanded testing site at the Astumbo Gym on April 24. John O'Connor/The Guam Daily Post
DRIVE THRU: A health official speaks to drive-in participants to the expanded testing pilot program at the Astumbo Gym in April. The community testing scheduled for tomorrow, Oct. 31, has been postponed due to the anticipated bad weather associated with Tropical Depression Atsani. Post file photo.
SAMPLES: Health workers bag samples taken during nasal swabbing of drive-in participants at a community test site in April. John O'Connor/The Guam Daily Post
TESTING: A man winces in discomfort as he undergoes nasal swabbing at a pilot testing site at the Astumbo gym on April 24. A Guam patient who was released from isolation after recovering from COVID-19 has tested positive again. John O'Connor/The Guam Daily Post
As of Saturday night, 128 people have recovered and there remain eight active cases.
The governor is expected to announce a recovery plan next week as well as details on an extended emergency declaration and whatever restrictions the island might begin to see lifted.
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However, before the government can consider the first stages of recovery, Guam needs the capacity to conduct 258 tests per day to maintain COVID-19 suppression, according to the governor's physicians advisory group.
Overall, Public Health is anticipating 6,100 kits in total over a period of time. But other testing facilities, such as the Guam Guard and Diagnostic Laboratory Services, also have their own kits.
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