County Announces COVID-19 Testing Schedule for Upcoming Week
For Immediate Release: Friday, Oct. 30, 2020
Montgomery County health officials are urging all residents to get tested
for COVID-19 and will provide free walk-in and drive-thru COVID-19 testing at
multiple sites during the upcoming week. Testing is important for
everyone so that health officials can track the spread of COVID-19 in the
community. Some individuals with COVID-19 can be asymptomatic (without symptoms)
and spread the disease to vulnerable groups, such as the elderly.
Testing clinics are free, no doctor’s order is required and no appointments
are needed. Residents who are experiencing symptoms should call the
Testing Helpline at 240-777-1755 for assistance with scheduling testing, as not
all sites accept residents with symptoms. The County’s home-based testing and
human services screening is also available for eligible residents. Find more
information on the home-based testing and eligibility on the testing
website.
The self-administered nasal swab tests provided at the clinics are from CIAN
Diagnostic Laboratories in Frederick. These tests are nasal swab molecular
tests. Also called a PCR test, this diagnostic test detects genetic
material of the COVID-19 virus using a lab technique called polymerase
chain reaction (PCR).
Find a complete schedule of upcoming clinics at www.MoCoCOVIDTesting.org.
