On Wednesday, May 27, 2020, the county health department and the Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority held a drive-up COVID-19 testing event at DuPont Middle School in Belle. The event ran from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. It was open to everyone, including people with no symptoms.
Twenty people had registered ahead of time, and the health officer expected dozens more to drive up. Appointments were preferred. People made an appointment through the health department’s COVID-19 hotline at 304-348-1088.
Cases at the time
On the morning of May 27, the health department reported 53 active COVID-19 cases in the county and 166 closed cases. The active case count was going down. The health officer said each testing event of the week before had found at least one positive case, and she asked people to get tested as the state reopened.
The week before, 837 people were tested at the Schoenbaum Center in Charleston over a Friday and Saturday. More public testing was set for Friday and Saturday, May 29 and 30, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Shawnee Park in Dunbar, through the state.
See preregister for COVID-19 drive-up events and drive-up testing at the Schoenbaum Family Enrichment Center.
This information is from May 2020. It is kept here as a record and is not current advice. Check current guidance from the CDC or your doctor.