More COVID-19 testing sites are expected to come online next week as Outer Cape Health Services plans to double the testing hours at its Wellfleet and Provincetown locations and have another site up and running at its Harwich Port clinic.
Outer Cape Health Services expects to be able to offer free rapid tests for asymptomatic people by mid-week, CEO Patricia Nadle said Thursday during a press briefing by the Reopening Cape Cod Task Force.
Expanded testing on the Outer Cape, as well as Hyannis and Falmouth, is an attempt to address what state Sen. Julian Cyr, D-Truro, has called a “testing desert” on Cape Cod.
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The barnlike marketplace building that houses commercial vendors during the Barnstable County Fair will have a new life as a coronavirus testing site as early as next week.
An additional site is opening up at the Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis next week, to be followed by expanded test sites operated by Outer Cape Health Services at its offices in Wellfleet and Provincetown.
While the new sites offer expanded molecular PCR tests for COVID-19, the tests won’t be free for all, state legislators said Tuesday morning.
“It’s not a Stop the Spread site,” state Sen. Julian Cyr, D-Truro, said during a press teleconference Tuesday morning.