PANAMA CITY BEACH – To combat the accumulation of COVID-19 cases, Bay County opened its immediate trials this week at Panama City Beach Sports Complex.
Capable of monitoring up to 500 people a day with effects that will take place in about 20 minutes, the new site opened Monday to ease tension at the Lynn Haven Sports Park monitoring site. The Lynn Haven site opened in July and has recently noticed a building in demand, Bay County spokeswoman Valerie Sale said.
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“The key to mastering this (virus) is for other people to know what their prestige is so that, if they are PositiveArray . . . they can stay home and not be in touch with everyone,” Sale said.
Sale said he believed that the increase in the call for evidence was due to some important factors: an overall increase in coronavirus cases, an increase in the number of citizens who sit down and others who need to be tested before traveling on a scale in their families for the holidays.
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Among the last organization, Michael Kelly, a visiting snowbird at the Pennsylvania PCB, who tested with his wife at the sports complex on Wednesday.
Kelly, who added that neither he nor his wife had symptoms, said they sought to make sure they didn’t pass the virus on to their families, which they would see next week.
“We have no symptoms, no problem, but we’re going to fly and our wonderful grandchildren and grandchildren, so we have to make sure everything’s okay,” he said.
Derrick Robinson of Panama City said he also sought to adopt a preventive technique to combat the virus.
As a Basic NWFL prevention specialist, Robinson said he tries to get tested every two weeks to make sure he doesn’t broadcast COVID-19 while running to combat the spread of HIV in the community.
“I need to make sure I am and (that) I’m still othersArray, ” he said. “Everyone deserves to be tested because of the accumulation of COVID in the United States. “
Although Sale does not know how many tests the county has conducted this year, he said about three hundred more people had been tested for COVID-19 at the PCB Sports Complex on Monday and Tuesday, in addition to another 900 people who were tested at Lynn Haven Sports. Park the same period.
According to data provided through the Florida Department of Health in Bay County, more than 8,300 other people tested positive for coronavirus this year in Bay County. There were also 152 deaths similar to COVID-19.
While the two bay verification sites were closed on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, they will reopen on Mondays. Normal hours are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 7 a. m. 3 p. m, and Tuesday and Thursday from 10 a. m. 6 p. m. To make an appointment, visit www. baycountyfl. gov.