As of Monday evening there were 28 mobile sample-collection sites in Missouri, and at least nine sites in the St. Louis metro area. A list of providers with sites can be found on the DHSS website. All of the large hospital systems around St. Louis have set up the sites where people can get tested in their cars to limit exposure to others.

In Illinois on Tuesday, Gov. J.B Pritzker emphasized the state’s efforts to expand testing. Illinois now has capacity for 2,000 tests per day, including about 600 tests a day from state health department labs. Pritzker said he hopes to increase that through more labs and hospital-based testing so that more than 4,000 people will soon be tested for the virus each day.

“Testing helps demonstrate the actual reach of COVID-19 and informs us how we can potentially isolate the outbreak,” Pritzker said.

The total number of COVID-19 tests completed each day for Missouri patients remains unclear as private labs including LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics are now handling most of the state’s testing and, before this week, only reported positive results to the state.