Hard Rock Stadium’s free COVID-19 drive-thru testing site in Miami Gardens will be closing early Friday for maintenance, officials say.
The drive-thru site offers free COVID-19 testing to anyone older than 18, regardless of symptoms and also offers free antibody testing to anyone older than 18. No appointment is needed for either test but you do need to show a valid photo I.D. such as a driver’s license.
Officials say the test site will be closing at 1 p.m. Friday for “maintenance” and will reopen at 9 a.m. Saturday. It will then resume its normal hours of operations.
The test site, 347 Don Shula Dr., opens every day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is capable of doing a maximum of 750 COVID-19 tests and a maximum of 125 antibody tests a day.
For a list of other COVID-19 test sites in South Florida, click here.
HEADS-UP! @FLSERT#COVID19 Test Site @HardRockStadium will close at 1 p.m. today (6/12) for maintenance. We will resume normal testing hours at 9 a.m. Saturday. We're open seven days a week, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and offer free antibody testing in addition to the active virus test. pic.twitter.com/IhtQGZPteH
— Florida Association of Public Information Officers (@FloridaPIOs) June 12, 2020
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
