COVID Testing Requirements Keep Holiday Travelers Stalled At SFO

By Shawn Chitnis, CBS San Francisco:

SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (KPIX) — Travelers trying to get out of San Francisco International Airport Sunday faced more challenges related to COVID-19 as the holiday weekend came to an end: cancellations by airlines and limited testing availability.

“My flight out tomorrow is at 6 a.m. and this will be closed until 8 a.m.,” said Jordan Simon, standing in line to get a COVID test at SFO. “I think it’s a terrible line, I think it’s a terrible line for sure. From up there it says if you’re here, it’s a three-hour wait. So this is like a five-hour line.”

Simon showed up the day before his flight to southeast Asia because he wasn’t sure he could get a test before his flight on Monday. The airport offers walk-up testing in the international terminal but warned some people in the afternoon they would be unable to take a test before day’s end.

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