DENVER (KDVR) — Governor Jared Polis and Mayor Michael Hancock are expected to unveil a complimentary, large scale drive-up COVID-19 testing site in a Pepsi Center parking lot in a media conference on Thursday.

The enormous site in Pepsi Center’s “Prius West” lot features 12 lanes to have people. Neighboring parking lots are lined with cones to help with traffic control.

Earlier this week, Governor Polis declared the nation is now able to process 10,000 tests per day. CDPHE has partnered using STRIDE Community Health Center, Clinica Family Health and Women’s Health Group to open six sites around the subway . On the other hand, the introduction of this testing site out Pepsi Center signifies a significant growth in testing from the metro.

Drive-up testing has been the method of testing as it is convenient and simple. When a drive-up testing site initially opened in a CDPHE centre in Lowry, patients waited to get analyzed as well as got turned off . After it closed, those wanting to have analyzed whined it was difficult to discover places to have tested. Thursday’s announcement of this drive-up site near the Pepsi Center marks a shift in the metro-area’s testing availability and capabilities.

Governor Polis said wide-spread testing is critical in easing restrictions on the economy as it will help health experts track how the virus is spreading and behaving in Colorado. Furthermore, Governor Polis said simple accessibility to analyzing incentivizes people to get tested when they are afflicted by COVID-19 symptoms, self-isolate if they are ill and notify with.

Governor Polis and Mayor Hancock are hosting a joint media conference in the Pepsi Center at two p.m. to unveil that the drive-up site and its hours of operation.

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