The San Francisco Police Department shut down what they termed was "an unauthorized COVID-19 testing tent" near Market and Church streets Wednesday, a spokesman stated to the Bay Area Reporter Friday.
The area is a heavily trafficked section of the city's LGBTQ Castro district and upper Market Street corridor with stops for multiple transit lines and the underground Church Station for the subway system.
Both a Safeway and Whole Foods grocery stores are located on the block where the testing tent was operating. "On Wednesday August 18, 2021, at approximately 5:33 p.m., San Francisco Police officers assigned to Mission Station responded to the 2000 block of Market Street on a report of an unauthorized COVID-19 testing tent," SFPD public