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The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment opened several free community COVID-19 testing sites throughout the state last week in an effort to increase access.
Testing is now available Monday through Friday at Abraham Lincoln High School in Denver from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., Fruita Monument High School in Fruita from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Mission Medical Center in Colorado Springs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Testing is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays at Logan County Fairgrounds in Sterling and on Sundays at Northeast Colorado Health Department.
All sites are free of charge and currently open for testing. Walk-ins are welcome but registration is encouraged. Registration for each site is available online at covidcheckcolorado.org.
Free COVID-19 testing hours in New Castle, Rifle and Parachute have been changed because of the weather, Garfield County Public Health announced in a Saturday news release.
In New Castle, the mobile testing van will now be available to provide free testing to anyone regardless of identification or insurance from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday at Elk Creek Elementary parking lot, 804 Main St.
In Parachute, the visit was rescheduled for noon to 5 p.m. Monday in the Bea Underwood Elementary School parking lot, 0741 Tamarisk Trail.
In Rifle, testing is now slated for noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Garfield County Fairgrounds, 1001 Railroad Ave., in Rifle.
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Denver’s drive-through coronavirus testing facility in the parking lot of Paco Sanchez Park just off Federal Boulevard was busy on Nov. 18, 2020, ahead of Thanksgiving.
As families settle into the holiday season, the Colorado Department of Health and Environment has announced a new slate of free, community-run testing sites for COVID-19.
CDPHE said in a press release that some of the new locations were already up and running as of Thursday, though some will not open until Sunday morning.
The state also plans to hold a series of one-off testing events through Tuesday. The newly announced events and sites will accept walk-ins, but CDPHE says people seeking a test should still register online beforehand.