ORLANDO, Fla. — Lines formed early Monday at a second mass COVID-19 testing site to open in Orange County.
Econ Soccer Complex was a drive-thru testing site earlier this year, and was reopened because of the demand for testing in the county.
The new site at Econ Soccer Complex will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. starting today for testing, but no vaccines will be offered at this site.
What You Need To Know
- The new Econ Soccer Complex testing opened Monday at 9 a.m. for testing
- This comes after the Barnett Park site reached capacity 10 days in a row, having to close early every day during the holiday season
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The county's offering free Molecular PCR and Rapid Antigen nasal tests.
There's no age or symptom requirements to be tested, and uninsured patients will still be tested.
Leaders tell us the new site will help alleviate long lines at Barnett Park.
"Once the wait time gets higher than the amount of hours we're going to keep the site open, then we proceed to close the line, just to make sure that everyone in line gets actually tested," Daniella Sullivan with the Orange County Medical Clinic told us last week at Barnett Park.
The Barnett Park site's averaging about 1200 tests per day, but has supply for about 2500 a day.