Tupelo Testing

Mobile covid - 19 testing comes to Tupelo today.

Mobile covid - 19 testing comes to tupelo today..

The mississippi state department of health set up site in the bancorpsouth arena parking lot.

Anyone who wanted to be tested had to meet certain requirements, such as having symptoms, and they also had to schedule an appointment in advance.

Members of the mississippi army national guard were on site through the day in a support role.

"most of the time, people look at the national guard, and we have a federal mission and state mission and this is one of the moments when we get to actually execute and support the state on our state mission."

There are four army and air national guard teams helping the state department of health with mobile testing