Federal judge orders COVID-19 testing at Bakersfield immigration detention facility
by Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times
Aug 16, 2020
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered immediate testing of all detainees and staff at a Bakersfield immigration detention center where COVID-19 was spreading for weeks while officials refused to test for the virus.
After receiving results on Friday showing that nearly half of the detainees tested earlier in the week were positive, federal District Court Judge Vince Chhabria ordered the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to conduct quick-result testing of
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