Michigan Department of Transportation will resume tourist information services at all Michigan Welcome Centers prior to the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
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Free COVID-19 testing at the I-69 Coldwater Welcome Center
The Daily Reporter
Since the first week of May, a COVID-19 testing site is operating from a modular unit installed at the Coldwater I-69 Michigan Welcome Station. The center is open for testing seven days a week from 10 a.m to 4:30 p.m.
It is one of several placed at airports and Welcome Centers in the state to provide free testing for the Coronavirus.
Friday morning, a man from West Michigan received a “negative” result from the 30-minute test done by taking a small swab from just side the nose. Placed on a cardboard strip, a reagent is added. The paper is folded over and you wait for the results.
Grand Rapids Business Journal
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In an attempt to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, the Michigan Department of Transportation and select Michigan airports are piloting a Travel Points Testing program this spring, bringing antigen COVID-19 testing to locations with high volumes of travel.
Quick and cost-free testing will be offered at several Michigan Welcome Centers and airports throughout the state with results available in as little as 15 minutes. Walk-ups are taken as space allows, and an option to register online via a mobile device will be available.
“As we head into the summer with vaccines ramping up and a light at the end of the tunnel, I am so proud of this partnership between MDOT and MDHHS to keep Michiganders safe,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said. “I encourage all Michiganders to continue masking up, socially distancing and hand washing to slow the spread, and if you reenter or travel across the state
Michigan launches coronavirus testing at welcome centers and local airports
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A health care professional performs a COVID-19 nasal swab test on a patient at the Sparrow Hospital drive-thru COVID-19 testing center at a former Sears Auto Center in the Frandor Shopping Center in Lansing, on Wednesday, November 11, 2020. The typical wait time for the testing center is roughly 3 hours. (Mike Mulholland | MLive.com)Mike Mulholland | MLive.com
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Michigan plans to pilot the Travel Points Testing program, which will offer quick coronavirus testing at welcome centers and airports.
In an attempt to stop the spread of COVID-19, testing locations are planned along highways and airports with high volumes of travel.