The surge in COVID-19 cases and the upcoming holiday is causing long lines at testing sites across Long Island.

The City MD in Levittown was open until 9 p.m. Monday but they were already turning away people as early as 5 p.m. due to the amount of people waiting to get a test.

Grace Hong was one of the patients denied a test because they were fully booked by others waiting outside in the cold for hours.

“I definitely think it should be easier to get tested,” Hong says.

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a strategy to prevent ongoing long ling. She is opening seven new state-run testing sites starting next week, including one in Nassau.

The state is also purchasing 10 million self-test kits and will soon open an online portal where people can order at-home PCR tests.

Suffolk Health Commissioner Dr. Gregson Pigott says he has been talking to state officials about making more tests available, but questions still remain about how that is going to get done.

“I’d like to see more testing available,” Pigott says. “Whether that’s a mass testing sites, that would be great. But we’ll see.”

Meanwhile, Nassau County Executive-elect Bruce Blakeman is calling on the state to make more at-home test kits available.

He appeared on Fox News Monday where he reiterated that he would not enforce Gov. Kathy Hochul’s mask mandate.

“Using good common sense and discussing it with the health care professionals, I have determined that I am not going to enforce the mask mandate because it’s not necessary,” Blakeman said on Fox News. “We are not in crisis in Nassau County.”

Meanwhile, residents are urged to show up early and be ready to wait if they want to be tested.

The person who was rejected from getting a test Monday says she was told to come back Tuesday at around 7:30 a.m.