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Fulton adds COVID-19 testing to three polling places this week

No appointments are needed.
By Ben Brasch
May 27, 2020

Fulton County announced Tuesday that walk-up COVID-19 testing is available at three early voting sites this week.

Testing will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Friday at the following polling locations: South Fulton Service Center, 5600 Stonewall Tell Road; Garden Hills Elementary, 285 Sheridan Drive NE in Atlanta; Sandy Springs Library, 395 Mount Vernon Highway NE in Sandy Springs.

No appointment or symptoms are needed to get tested.

READ | Fulton County fixing backlog of 25,000 absentee ballot applications

The Fulton County Board of Health is providing testing at the South Fulton center site, and the organization CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort) is doing the testing at the other two sites.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in mid-April said he would mail absentee ballot request forms to the state's roughly 6.9 million voters as a way to mitigate people getting sick from voting in person. Technical hiccups have made that harder to do, and some long lines to vote were seen in Futlon.

Testing is still available at other sites: Center for Health & Rehabilitation, 265 Boulevard NE in Atlanta; Wolf Creek Amphitheater, 3025 Merk Road; 4700 North Point Parkway in Alpharetta.

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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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