Delaware County is reopening its COVID-19 testing sites because of an increase in demand, reports Dan Cuellar for 6abc.com.

About 500 people a day are being tested. The number has been on the rise because of worries people have been exposed to the delta variant and because of growing demand from employers that workers be tested or vaccinated. .

“I think employees are being told that they have to be tested by their employers. And then I think also there’s a growing sense that if they’re unvaccinated, they’re getting tested just as a precaution,” said Rosemarie Halt, Delaware County’s COVID-19 Task Force Director.

Halt says the county COVID-19 infection rate continues to rise, trending high, and people are calling wondering if the county was making test sites available again.

“So we’re offering testing again. We’re back in the testing business,” she said.

Halt did add that the trending rate seems to be leveling off.

There’s also been a lot of interest in booster shots.

Halt says Delaware County will be offering free testing sites at the Keystone Wellness Center in Chester, the facility in Yeadon and they will sponsor pop-up events throughout the county in the next few weeks.

Read more at 6abc.com about Delaware County’s COVID-19 testing.