DeKalb County residents looking to ring in the new year with a COVID-19 test will have to look elsewhere.
The DeKalb Board of Health announced Monday morning its two mass testing sites are closed due to gusty winds. North Georgia is experiencing strong winds up to 40 mph Monday, leading to unsafe conditions at the county’s North DeKalb Health Center and Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church testing sites.
The National Weather Service issued a wind advisory for all of metro Atlanta until noon Monday. The strong winds generated by overnight storms Sunday already had some tragic effects in DeKalb. A 5-year-old boy was killed about 5 a.m. when a tree fell on a home off Glenwood Road.
DeKalb’s health centers, offices and mass COVID-19 mass vaccination site in Doraville are also closed, but not because of the strong winds. The closures were scheduled in observation of the New Year’s Day holiday.
All government offices and the two testing sites are scheduled to reopen Tuesday. For more information on COVID-19 testing and vaccination in DeKalb, visit dekalbhealth.net.
