COVID-19: Essex opens appointment-only testing site Thursday
BY JAIMIE JULIA WINTERS
winters@montclairlocal.news
Tomorrow, Abut 26, Essex County wish open its first driving-through examination web site in Weequahic Park, Newark, for Essex County residents who are COVID-19 characteristic.
The first two days of testing will bring up place Thursday, March 26, and Sat, Borderland 28. Peerless hundred tests a day testament be administered to Essex County residents only, and by appointment only.
Residents can chatter www.EssexCOVID.org , where they will be required to complete a snub online screening unconscious process before an appointment is scheduled. Residents will atomic number 4 asked single health-related questions and to detail some symptoms they sustain related to the coronavirus. Upon mop up of the survey, they will be informed if they are eligible for the screening. If they are entitled, a substantiation number will be provided. Residents must bring the confirmation add up with them to their appointment and must arrive away car.
For those without internet approach, an operator at Essex County Office of Parking brake Direction will walk callers through the survey. Operators can comprise reached at 973-324-9950 from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. If the fresh qualifies for testing, a confirmation number will be given over the ring
"The most effective agency that elected officials and state-supported wellness professionals can get a handle on how far reaching COVID-19 has become is to test residents for the virus," Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr., Freeholder President Brendan Gill and Vice President Wayne Richardson said in a joint statement. "These screenings are in high demand and we ask for the public's cooperation throughout this procedure."
The screenings are being offered to Essex County residents only WHO are symptomatic of COVID-19. To father tested residents must meet taxonomic category testing criteria, which includes a fever of at least 99.6 degrees and respiratory symptoms of shortness of breath. Those who do not meet the criteria will not receive an appointment. If you are exhibiting severe symptoms, please tangency your local healthcare provider or local health department for guidance.
Twenty dollar bill-combined Montclair residents have tested positive for the virus as of Tuesday, according to township wellness officials, sequent in four deaths. As of yesterday, Essex County had 342 cases of COVID-19.
The testing center in Essex will be also open close week on Monday, Wed and Friday when 150 tests a day testament constitute administered. Appointments will be scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Tests are being offered for free to Essex County residents. Having health indemnity is not a necessity. Follow through contact will personify made to appraise the continuing wellness of the mortal who completed the covering.
Last Friday, the first FEMA-operated testing facility opened at Bergen Community College and tested 600 multitude. In the days following, testing close inside an hour or less imputable take. The FEMA facility that opened Monday at PNC Humanistic discipline Center in Holmdel as wel maxed out within an hour.
Another in Secaucus opened Monday but is only fetching Hudson County residents and is by date only. Passaic County opened a testing center at William Paterson University today, Wednesday, and is open only to residents of that county who have support from their doctor.
At the FEMA centers in Bergen County and Holmdel, residents only need to be a resident of New Jersey and do non need a doctor's referral, but ut have to comprise symptomatic.
Medical personnel from RWJBarnabas Wellness System, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, University Hospital, Hackensack Hospital, Essex County Infirmary and nurses from public schools in Essex County are staffing the testing sites and call option-in center. Security at the site is beingness provided by the Essex County Sheriff's Office and Newark Police Department.
Essex County will continue to administer the computer virus showing every bit hourlong as supplies of test kits, gowns, facial masks and gloves final stage.
"We encourage our residents to continue to take precautions to prevent the spread of the computer virus and not place themselves in situations where they may be exposed," county officials said.
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