LIVE: Federal COVID-19 testing site set to open at Metz Elementary in east Austin

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The federal government will soon help open another location where people can go in east Austin to get tested for COVID-19.
Local, state and federal leaders will hold a news conference Friday afternoon to announce that Metz Elementary, located at 84 Robert T. Martinez Jr. Street, will become a new testing site. It's unknown, however, what the opening date for the testing site will be yet.
During last Friday's briefing about the local COVID-19 impact, Austin Public Health sha