New Castle County adds evening COVID test site to help meet surge

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New Castle County adds evening COVID test site to help meet surge
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A new COVID test site opened in Delaware City, Delaware, with unique evening hours, to help meet an uptick in testing.

"We both worked, basically, through the whole pandemic," Kirkley stated."With us, we’ve had a couple people out at work and our kids go back and forth with school. It is kinda huge to finally be able to find a place to get tested. Most people are okay with scheduling you two to three weeks out and that doesn’t give us much of a relief."

The Delaware Division of Public Health or DPH and the Delaware Emergency Management Agency partnered with FEMA to open up the free drive-thru testing site.

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