Monmouth County is helping front-line workers who want to get tested for COVID-19 skip the wait, as its
mobile
testing site will begin its first day of operations.
From 9 a.m. through 1 p.m., or until supplies last, the Monmouth County
Health Department, Monmouth County freeholders, and the office of Emergency
Management are deploying the new mobile testing lab at different sites across
the county starting today, including the Middletown firehouse.
The tests will only be administered to health care workers and first
responders, and does not impact Monmouth County's public testing sites -- which
rotate every other day at other locations.
Only 100 tests will be available
at the mobile testing unit. Monmouth County Freeholder Director Tom Arnone said
previously as the demand for testing increases, he would make sure anyone who
wanted to test would be able to get one.
The mobile testing unit for
first responders and health care workers will visit different towns in the
upcoming days. The next stop is planned for Thursday morning at the Camp Evans
parking lot in Wall Township.