Drive-thru COVID-19 testing in Las Vegas expands to 7 days a week
An appointment-only, drive-thru COVID-19 testing program at The Orleans is expanding to seven days a week, Clark County and University Medical Center announced Friday.
The testing, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, is free for anyone who doesn’t have insurance and is open to everyone, whether they have symptoms of the virus or not. Appointments can be made via UMC’s website at umcsn.com.
The drive-thru operation opened for a two-day trial run Tuesday on the first floor of the parking garage on the west site of The Orleans property off Cameron Street. This was an initial step toward making COVID-19 testing more widely available to the public, according to a county news release.
The Orleans is located at 4500 W. Tropicana Ave.
More than 1,400 people were tested during the trial run at the site, operated by Clark County, UMC and the Nevada National Guard.
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