Camp Humphreys Hospital Now Able to Conduct Its Own Coronavirus Testing

USFK is now able to conduct their own coronavirus testing:

With the number of infections soaring in South Korea after a February outbreak in Daegu, U.S. Forces Korea restricted access to bases, implemented health checks at entry gates and ordered service members to avoid nonessential activities and travel outside the base.

However, USFK didn’t have the ability to conduct its own tests. It initially had to outsource patients and samples to an overwhelmed South Korean health system.

That changed on March 7 when the military stood up its own lab at the new hospital that opened last year on Camp Humphreys, allowing it to ramp up testing.

Stars & Stripes

You can read more at the link, but of interest is that 250 USFK servicemembers and civilians have been tested with only 9 so far coming up positive. The lab at Camp Humphreys is also conducting only 10 test a day with the capacity to do about 80 if needed.

If possible maybe some of these test kits need to be shipped to the U.S. to help out there.