(KNSI) – The Minnesota Department of Health is opening two new COVID-19 saliva testing sites in the Twin Cities metro and moving two others to Minnesota National Guard armories, including the St. Cloud armory, next week.
The MDH cites rising demand for COVID testing as the delta variant spurs on the state’s fourth wave of COVID infections.
Two new semi-permanent testing sites will open in St. Paul and Bloomington next week, and St. Cloud’s testing site at the River’s Edge Convention Center will relocate to the Minnesota National Guard Armory at 1710 Veterans Drive starting September 2nd. The new testing site will operate Mondays through Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The last day of testing at the convention center will be August 31st.
The state’s community testing site in Mankato will also move to the national guard armory in Mankato, located at 100 Martin Luther King Drive, starting September 1st.
Testing remains free and can be accessed by appointment or on a walk-in basis. The tests, run through Vault Health, provide results in 48-72 hours.
St. Paul’s new testing site at Roy Wilkins Auditorium, 175 West Kellogg Boulevard, opens August 31st. Bloomington’s site at the former DMV, 9930 Logan Avenue South, starts administering tests on August 30th.
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