News Flash

For Immediate Release

06/12/2020                        

Phone: 980-432-1800
Website: www.rowancountync.gov/covid-19
Email: covid-19@rowancountync.gov

Rowan County Case Information: https://bit.ly/rowan-covid19-hub

Rowan County COVID-19 Community Testing for June 15^th to June 19^th

Rowan County is supporting North Carolina’s goal of increasing testing of people who may not currently have symptoms, but may have been exposed to COVID-19.  This includes:

• Anyone with symptoms suggestive of COVID-19.
• Close contacts of known positive cases, regardless of symptoms.
• Groups of some of the populations with higher risk of exposure or a higher risk of severe disease if they become infected. People in these groups should get tested if they believe they may have been exposed to COVID-19, whether or not they have symptoms. 
• People who live in or have regular contact with high-risk settings (e.g., long-term care facility, homeless shelter, correctional facility, migrant farmworker camp).
• People from historically marginalized populations who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. View a NCDHHS Fact Sheet (PDF) providing best practices for community testing in historically marginalized populations.
• Frontline and essential workers (grocery store clerks, gas station attendants, child care workers, construction sites, processing plants, etc.)
• Health care workers or first responders.
• People who are at higher risk of severe illness.
• People who have attended protests, rallies, or other mass gatherings and could have been exposed to someone with COVID-19 or could have exposed others.

You can be tested at the following locations:

West End Plaza
1935 Jake Alexander Blvd, Salisbury
Every Monday in June from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Testing is free and open to the public

Northern Rowan Family Medicine 
313 N Salisbury Ave, Spencer
Every Tuesday from 8:30–11:30 a.m.

Rowan County Health Department
1811 East Innes Street, Salisbury
Every Wednesday in June from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Friday June 19^th from 8:30–11:30 a.m.
Testing is free and open to the public

Novant Health Rowan
1904 Jake Alexander Blvd, Salisbury
Testing every day from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Testing criteria may apply

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Contact:
TJ Brown
704-216-8918
tj.brown@rowancountync.gov

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