Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday the state has now surpassed 120,000 completed coronavirus tests, and that number continues to rise as new drive-thru testing sites are planned around the state. “Over the last two or three weeks it’s been a dramatic increase in the state of Florida, and we’re now one of the top states for testing,” DeSantis said at a roundtable meeting.

The governor also spoke to the importance of rapid COVID-19 testing, which gives positive results within five minutes and negative results within 13 minutes of processing the sample.

The test, created by Abott Labs, is not as widely available as many health officials would like, leaving testing centers to rely on collecting samples and having to send them off to a lab

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