Long Lines Greet Hundreds Seeking COVID Take-Home Test Kits In Broward

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Take-home COVID tests were distributed again Friday astatine 8 Broward County libraries.

The lines were agelong and the investigating kits were erstwhile again limited.

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Still, radical were successful enactment earlier sunrise waiting to get them. Broward County Vice Mayor, Lamar Fisher says they’re doing the champion they tin to assistance everyone person a harmless and blessed New Year’s Eve.

“The seriousness of the spreading of this disease, Omicron, it’s truthful vastly impacting everybody’s lives. You cognize anybody and everybody has it close now,” says Fisher.

Within the past 2 days, the region has distributed astir 150,000 take-home accelerated tests.

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“150,000 doesn’t adjacent dent the 2 cardinal radical that reside successful Broward County. We’re desperately trying to get the DOH to truly measurement up and if they person those tests, get them to america to we tin get them retired to the public,” says Fisher.

People were successful enactment this greeting earlier 4 a.m. astatine the Miramar Branch Library.

They waited six hours until the work lanes opened up, conscionable to marque definite they’d unafraid 2 take-home kits. With the surge successful Omicron cases, radical successful enactment contiguous told us, they privation to marque definite they get a antagonistic effect earlier ringing successful the caller twelvemonth with friends and family.

“We thought it was a necessity for america to get those retired to the nationalist truthful they tin person that accidental to trial and instrumentality due actions if they’re antagonistic oregon positive,” said Fisher.

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Vice Mayor Fisher says they requested a full of 500,000 take-home investigating kits from the Department of Health. No connection yet connected erstwhile the remainder of them volition amusement up. As soon arsenic they bash they’ll beryllium distributed successful a akin fashion.

Ashley Dyer