Omicron Outbreak At Navigation Center: 50 And Counting (Updated)

San Francisco CA

30 December, 2021

4:32 PM

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By Eleni Balakrishnan, Mission Local December 28, 2021 A Covid-19 outbreak at the Division Circle Navigation Center, at 224 South Van Ness Ave., has infected more than half of the unhoused clients staying there, with 47 guests testing positive as of Monday. Shari Wooldridge, the director of St. Vincent de Paul, which oversees the navigation center, said the center was housing 88 clients when the outbreak started, just under its full capacity of 92 under covid protocols. She said this is the biggest outbreak she's seen since the very early days of the pandemic. The site tests its clients regularly, and found seven positive cases on Wednesday, Dec. 22. By Thursday, there were another 15 positive cases. Yesterday, Dec. 27, another 20 clients tested positive, Wooldridge said. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.