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Pepsi Center COVID-19 testing site to close Sept. 30

Virus Outbreak Colorado

The COVID-19 testing site at the Pepsi Center in Denver will close next week.

A drive-thru testing lane only for college students opened Monday with campuses experiencing outbreaks.

But the special lane will only be open for a week as the testing site will stop operations on Sept. 30.

“The Pepsi Center site provided the broad, regional testing capacity needed early in our response, to stand in the gap to give the city time to build out a community-based testing program,” said Denver Department of Public Health and Environment Executive Director Robert McDonald.

“With that accomplished, the city can focus its testing resources where they are most effective, at a community level in highly impacted and underserved neighborhoods.”

The city will focus on local and pop-up sites.

The Pepsi Center site opened in late May for anyone with symptoms. It was later expanded to free testing to anyone without symptoms.

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