Increased demand: Miami-Dade expands hours for COVID testing

MIAMI – Officials successful Miami-Dade County person opened 2 caller coronavirus investigating sites and extended hours astatine Zoo Miami successful effect to an accrued demand.

“We are moving astir the timepiece to marque definite Miami-Dade residents person entree to investigating to support themselves and their loved ones during the vacation season,” Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said successful a quality merchandise connected Tuesday.

She said the region has besides distributed 152,000 instrumentality location accelerated trial kits.

“Our residents are doing the close happening by getting tested if they were exposed, person symptoms, oregon to instrumentality other precautions during the holidays, and that’s wherefore we are doing everything we tin to grow entree to investigating countywide,” the politician said.

The Zoo Miami tract is unfastened for investigating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, said Ron Gonçalves, General Manager for NOMI Health Florida.

“We don’t person capable words to convey Nomi’s frontline workers who are putting their lives connected the enactment successful administering tens of thousands of tests and vaccines daily, moving agelong hours — adjacent during the holidays," Goncalves said.

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Overall, Florida has seen a crisp summation successful caller COVID-19 cases successful the past week.

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