Several thousand Covid-19 rapid test kits will be distributed at more than a dozen sites throughout Broome County.
Patrick Dewing, director of the county Office of Emergency Services, said nearly 7,000 test kits will be given away.
A test drive site will be installed at Otsiningo Park in the city of Dickinson on Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
For those unable to attend the park distribution event, test kits will also be available at the Broome County Office Building in downtown Binghamton, as well as at the following libraries:
- Broome West Senior Center
- Northern Broome Senior Center
- Eastern Broome Senior Center
- Broome County Library
- Library without deposit
- Lisle’s Free Library
- George F. Johnson Memorial Library
- Nineveh Public Library
- Fenton Free Library
- Vestal Public Library
- Your home public library
- Mary Wilcox Memorial Library
Dewing said that around 5,000 kits have been allocated for the Otsiningo drive-through event. There will be a limit of two test boxes, a total of four tests, per car. They will be distributed in order of arrival.
Positive test results can be reported through the Broome County website or by clicking on HERE.
Covid-19 testing is available by appointment at the Broome County Health Department in Binghamton and at a state-run site on the old Davis College campus on Riverside Drive in Johnson City.
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