DUVAL COUNTY, Fla. — Health professionals are concerned about the put up-New Year’s COVID-19 surge following the getaway weekend.

Robin Boone stopped off at the Neptune Beach Telescope COVID-19 testing web page just ahead of 7 a.m. on Monday.

Boone desired to get a COVID-19 test ahead of traveling out to Panama.

“They demand a take a look at to come in 72 several hours prior,” Boone reported.

When he received to the parking lot, it was packed.

Our Motion Information Jax SkyVision Drone flew about this tests web-site, and you can see there had been at least four lanes of cars waiting around.

“We anticipated a line but not as poor as it is,” Boone mentioned.

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We noticed the final car receiving through the line at 11:15 a.m. The testing internet site had reached ability at all around 8:30 a.m.

Telescope Health told Action Information Jax last week that it anticipated lengthy strains of folks seeking to get examined on Monday, especially coming off a occupied New Year’s holiday.

Neptune Beach police have been named out to help direct traffic this early morning, so cars and trucks did not spill onto Atlantic Boulevard.

Telescope Health and fitness even tweeted that “due to the higher volume of screening staying asked for by the neighborhood the Neptune Beach tests web site will be functioning on a 1st arrive initially serve basis and will be restricting the variety of fast tests to 150 and PCR exams to 100 for each working day.”

Luckily, Boone designed the cutoff.

“We’re touring. We’re about to bounce on a aircraft tomorrow morning so we have to get a exam,” Boone mentioned.

But other people have been not so fortunate and have been turned away.

Telescope Wellbeing will reopen once more Tuesday at 7 a.m.

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Action Information Jax did arrive at out to the other town-funded websites to locate out how lots of tests were administered.

Agape Health’s key business was closed Monday so it could not give us an reply about its Lane Wiley and Clanzel Brown screening sites.

We also achieved out to the Office of Wellness, which leases two metropolis attributes for testing.

We are still waiting to listen to back again from Emmett Reed Community Middle and Cuba Hunter Neighborhood Center.

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