Gary Cox, Oklahoma State Commissioner of Health, in a Thursday news conference applauded the efficient and swift collection and testing process — in hours, not days.

“The Oklahoma State Department of Health Public Health Laboratory received a specimen for testing yesterday — Wednesday afternoon — related to a Utah Jazz player who was in Oklahoma City,” Cox told reporters. “We quickly received a presumptive positive test result at about 6:45 last evening, just a few minutes before the game with the Oklahoma City Thunder.”

Cox then said a team of nurses, epidemiologists and physicians worked with game officials to test all the Jazz players, as well as team personnel, Utah-area journalists and other staff.

“Fifty-eight specimens were collected and tested overnight, and we got the results very early this morning,” Cox said Thursday.

On March 6, when state and local officials announced Oklahoma’s first positive COVID-19 case in Tulsa County, Cox said the state’s testing capacity should allow for turnaround times of “just a matter of six or eight hours.”

However, other health officials still cited the 24- to 72-hour time frame.