CHRIS MORELLI cmorelli@lockhaven.com
BELLEFONTE — As positive cases of COVID-19 continue to turn up in Centre County, the county commissioners agreed to extend a contract with AMI Expeditionary Healthcare to operate the walk-in testing clinic at the former Comcast/Xfinity facility down the road from the Nittany Mall.
The current agreement with AMI was set to expire on Saturday, Feb. 27. The new agreement will extend the contract an additional month, through Saturday, March 27.
However, the number of tests per day will decrease from 300 to 200, according to county administrator Margaret Gray.
“That will bring the cost down to an average of approximately $66,000 per week,” Gray explained. “It can actually drop lower than that if our numbers fall in terms of number of people being tested.”