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Fulton now offering free at-home COVID-19 testing

By Ben Brasch
Sept 23, 2021

Fulton County Board of Health is now offering a free service for those who want to get tested for COVID-19 wherever they want.

The state-run agency will send rapid tests to those who are eligible or have them available for pick-up, according to a Facebook post this week. The eligible zip codes are: 30291, 30213, 30268, 30303, 30308, 30311, 30310, 30314, 30312, 30315, 30318, 30331, 30336, 30344, 30354, 30337, 30349 and 30363.

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Each test kit allows for home testing twice a week for two people. Anyone over the age of 2 can participate.

Results come in 10 minutes, according to the health board.

Those who are interested can order a test online, https://safercovid.org/mytest/order.html. Folks can also pick up test and can learn more about that service also online, https://covidtestfultoncounty.org/get-your-tests/.

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Ben Brasch is the reporter tasked with keeping Fulton County government accountable. The Florida native moved to Atlanta for a job with The AJC. If there's something important to you going on in Fulton, he wants to know about it. Help him better metro Atlanta by dropping a line, anonymously or otherwise.

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