The Pennsylvania Department of Health postponed Wednesday's testing availability at Pullman Park until Friday.

The drive-thru and indoor walk-in testing clinics will be conducted from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Michelle Krill Field, 100 Pullman Park Place.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health originally scheduled five days of daily testing that were supposed to start Wednesday. It was unclear in the announcement Tuesday whether the strike team would still perform five days of testing.

“Every day, COVID continues to spread in the commonwealth; every day, our numbers continue to rise, and that puts our health care system and our health care workers at greater risk,” Gov. Tom Wolf said.

The testing availability will make the county one of the first five to be visited by the COVID-19 testing strike team as part of the Department of Health's new strategy.

The strike teams will provide free PCR testing services available to anyone, regardless of whether they have symptoms. Teams will be able to test about 400 people per day. Registration will take place on-site on a first-come, first-serve basis.

“These testing sites are open to anyone who feels they need a test,” said Michael Huff, director of testing and contact tracing for the Department of Health.

The strike teams will be staffed by AMI Expeditionary Healthcare, a company the Department of Health initially contracted with to perform pop-up testing in highly strained areas.

Huff said AMI will continue to set up pop-up testing areas if necessary in addition to the strike teams.

The Department of Health extended the contract with AMI to include the new strike team roles with funding coming from federal grant sources.

“It is important that even people with no symptoms who test positive isolate to stop the spread of COVID-19,” Huff said.

The county's bout with the virus continued with the addition of 77 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and five new deaths, according to Tuesday's report by the Pennsylvania Department of Health.Since the pandemic began, the county has had 3,285 confirmed cases and 80 deaths.As of last week's report, the county's PCR positivity rate was listed at 10.2%, according to the COVID-19 Early Warning Monitoring System Dashboard. The county has the 18th lowest positivity rate of all 67 counties in the state. Juniata County currently has the highest at 27.1% and Forest County has the lowest at 3.6%.“We have seen a rapid increase of positive case counts reaching record-high levels, which gives us significant cause for concern,” Huff said.The state as a whole added 5,676 new positive cases of COVID-19 and 180 deaths. The Department of Health also reported 4,631 hospitalized patients statewide with 970 of those patients being treated in the intensive care unit.Huff said projections are showing a likely spike still to come after Thanksgiving as well as another expected after Christmas. He estimated the spike from Thanksgiving to arrive in about seven to 10 days.“We will see even greater spikes at that particular point in time,” he said. “This is a very dangerous time not to use the mitigation that we tell you about.”The Department of Health recommends wearing masks, social distancing of 6 feet from others and proper hygiene as ways to stop the spread of COVID-19.