SCOTTSBLUFF - More opportunities for testing will be available starting next week as Panhandle Public Health District and Community Action Health Center (CAPWN) work together to expand testing in western Nebraska.

Panhandle health officials announced Friday that testing will be offered at Community Action Health Center, located in Gering, three days a week. Testing will be available from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m., Monday, Wednesday and Friday, for persons who are symptomatic or have been exposed to the coronavirus.

Scotts Bluff County continues to have the most cases in the Panhandle, with 79 currently active cases. Other counties with active cases are: Cheyenne County, two; Garden County, four; and Morrill County, one.

Gov. Pete Ricketts decides each of the directed health measures, charging the local health districts with enforcing the health measures. Engel said that state officials are reviewing certain factors, such as ventilator and bed availability and ICU bed availability, in making those decisions. Hospitals must also have two weeks of personal protective equipment available as well.

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