SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — (10 a.m. update) The at-home test kit distribution event in Seminole County has ended. Officials gave out close to 11,000 test kits this and supplies were depleted in less than an hour.
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As the demand for COVID-19 testing remains high across Central Florida, Seminole County Emergency Management is working to make sure residents have access to resources.
A line of cars were parked at Seminole State College in Sanford hours before the agency opened the location Wednesday to give out free test kits.
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Today’s event for the public is at 100 Weldon Boulevard. It starts at 10 a.m. and people do not have to be a resident of Seminole County to get one.
Health officials said this type of event is important because Seminole County’s COVID-19 positivity rate is high. And it’s not the county’s first time doing this type of event.
Right now, Seminole County Emergency Management says the positivity rate is at 26%. Officials said they are hoping these kits will continue catching more cases, while easing up lines at larger scale testing sites.
So far, they’ve given away 40,000 test kits. Today, they’re handing out 8,000 more.
This time, each car will be limited to two test kit boxes. But each box contains six at-home COVID-19 tests.
If you’re trying to travel, Emergency Manager Alan Harris said this particular type of test will give you all the verification you will need to get the green light to go, if you’re negative.
He said he hopes this will offer people a potentially faster way of confirming their COVID-19 status.
“One way or another, they’ve got to get a test,” Harris said. “If they want to go on a cruise, if they want to do any other activity…if they want to go out of this country, they’re going to have to get a test. This is one method, going to a test site is another method. But those are really the only options.”
Harris says the county is holding 2,000 test kits for nursing homes or long term care facilities as well as first responders.
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