MARION COUNTY, Fla. – The Department of Health in Marion County will soon be moving its drive-thru COVID-19 testing site and making some changes as to how the site is operated.Starting Aug.
11, the site will move from the department’s Ocala office to the Southeastern Livestock Pavilion on Jacksonville Road in Ocala.
Once that location opens, residents will no longer need to make appointments and instead, testing will be offered on a first come, first served basis.“The appointment-based process allowed us to avoid long wait times that people using many other testing sites in the state experienced,” Florida Department of Health in Marion County administrator Mark Lander said in a news release. “However, we routinely had more than 100 people.