UNC Lenoir Health Care is offering free COVID-19 testing Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm.
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NCDHHS expands home testing program to all eligible North Carolinians
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced the state is expanding availability of its at-home COVID-19 test collection. Any North Carolina resident may receive a Pixel by Labcorp® COVID-19 PCR Test Home Collection Kit that is shipped overnight directly to their homes at no cost. Tests can be used on people age 2 and up.
Lenoir County Public Schools to participate in NCDHHS COVID-19 pilot program
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has selected 17 school districts and 11 charter schools to participate in a pilot program to deploy COVID-19 rapid testing in K-12 public schools where any in-person instruction is happening. Lenoir County Public Schools has 17 locations that will participate in the pilot program. Schools in the pilot will use the Abbott BinaxNOW rapid antigen test card, which uses a nasal swab to detect COVID-19 and provides results in 15 minutes without laboratory processing. The swab must be performed by trained personnel.
Jones County invites all residents to be tested for COVID-19
All residents of Jones County are invited to be tested for COVID-19. The results from the test will be back within 7 days.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) update: FDA authorizes first test for patient at-home sample collection
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the first diagnostic test with a home collection option for COVID-19. LabCorp intends to make the Pixel by LabCorp COVID-19 Test home collection kits available to consumers in most states, with a doctor’s order, in the coming weeks.