Jacksonville COVID-19 testing, vaccine sites to reopen Monday as cases surge

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – After closing for the holiday, COVID-19 investigating and vaccine sites volition reopen connected Monday successful Duval County.

The sites are reopening arsenic COVID-19 cases are surging crossed the state.

On Friday, the Sunshine State reported 31,758 new COVID-19 cases. It topped that connected Christmas Day with a study of 32,850 added coronavirus cases, a caller record.

The erstwhile single-day highest fig of cases was successful precocious August, during the tallness of the delta variant question successful Florida, erstwhile 27,802 cases were reported.

After the holidays, the fig of cases could spell up adjacent much and hospitals could go loaded with COVID-19 patients.

In different parts of the state, Floridians hoping to get COVID-19 tests waited successful agelong lines, sometimes for hours, connected Sunday, the time aft galore had gathered with friends and relatives for Christmas.

The pursuing sites volition reopen Monday, Dec. 27 successful Duval County:

Clanzel T. Brown Community Center
Lane Wiley Community Center
Emmett Reed Community Center
Cuba Hunter Community Center

The investigating tract astatine the Lane Wiley Center reopens astatine 9 a.m. and the drive-thru tract astatine the erstwhile Kmart successful Neptune formation is unfastened from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.

For much information, sojourn the Florida Department of Health successful Duval.