Updated: 9:49 AM EST January 20, 2021
GETTYSBURG, Pa. The Pennsylvania Department of Health announced that, beginning today, regional drive-through and indoor walk-in testing clinics will be held in five counties, including one in Gettysburg, Adams County.
The counties with testing sites will change weekly over the next six weeks, so that 61 counties will eventually be covered by pop-up testing sites over a 12-week period, Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine said in a press release.
Testing sites are also opening in Carbon, McKean, Snyder, and Washington counties, Levine said.
“Over the past several weeks, we have seen a rapid increase of positive case counts reaching record-high levels, which gives us significant cause for concern,” Levine said. “In fact, every county now has a positivity-rate greater than five percent, which is alarming. In addition, 14 counties have percent positivity above 20 percent.”
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The department extended and expanded its initial contract with AMI to perform pop-up testing in counties across the state. The initial AMI testing and the extension were funded by the federal ELC Enhancing Detection grant.
Director of Testing and Contact Tracing, Michael Huff, added that testing is going well at these sites.
“With the capacity to test up to 450 people per day, these sites are getting thousands of people tested during the course of the days-long site set-ups,” Huff said. “Testing is more important than ever in Pennsylvania and we will continue with a robust testing plan to keep Pennsylvanians safe and identify cases of COVID-19.”