New Santa Cruz COVID-19 Testing Site Opens; Latest Case Count

SANTA CRUZ, CA — A new COVID-19 testing site opened to the public in the city of Santa Cruz Monday.

The site is located at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium (307 Church St.) and can handle 165 tests per day. Appointments can be made here for slots on weekdays, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Walk-ins will not be accepted, according to a news release from the county.

The testing site is operated by OptumServe, which also operates the Ramsay Park (1301 Main St.) site in Watsonville — the city that is the epicenter of Santa Cruz County's outbreak. The Ramsay Park site was recently expanded to accommodate up to 330 people per day, seven days per week, according to the county.

Another community testing site has opened at Twin Lakes Church (2701 Cabrillo College Drive) in Aptos. The site is operated by Senneca Diagnostics and can accommodate 300 people per day, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays. Make an appointment here.

People are not required to exhibit symptoms to receive a test, though patients at each site will be screened, according to the county.

Here's the latest case count in Santa Cruz County, as of Sunday, the most recent day for which data is available:

• Aptos: 325
• Ben Lomond: 49
• Boulder Creek: 58
• Capitola: 173
• Felton: 59
• Freedom: 414
• Santa Cruz: 1,556
• Scotts Valley: 167
• Soquel: 160
• Watsonville: 3,922
• Unincorporated: 69
• Under investigation: 133

Countywide, that's a total of 7,085 cases reported, up from 6,503 cases as of last Sunday. Seventy deaths have been linked to the coronavirus and there are 1,956 active cases.