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[PR] Updates to the Public Testing Site Schedule, Effective Monday, October 5

Friday, October 2, 2020

(WASHINGTON, DC) – Beginning Monday, October 5, the hours at the District’s public COVID-19 testing sites will be adjusted. The updated schedule is below.

Judiciary Square – F Street, NW between 4th and 5th Streets, NW (walk-up only)
Monday – Friday, 9 am – 1 pm

Anacostia – 2241 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, SE (walk-up and drive-thru)
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 9 am – 1 pm

UDC-CC Bertie Backus Campus – 5171 South Dakota Avenue, NE (walk-up and drive-thru)
Tuesday and Thursday, 9 am – 1 pm

The following firehouse testing sites will operate Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 3 pm - 7 pm

  • Engine 4 – 2531 Sherman Avenue, NW

  • Engine 11 – 3420 14th Street, NW

  • Engine 24 – 5101 Georgia Avenue, NW

    • Engine 31 – 4930 Connecticut Avenue, NW

The following firehouse testing sites will operate on Tuesday and Thursday from 3 pm to 7 pm and on Saturday from 12 pm to 4 pm.

  • Engine 8 – 1520 C Street, SE

  • Engine 10 – 1342 Florida Avenue, NE

  • Engine 30 – 50 49th Street, NE

  • Engine 33 – 101 Atlantic Street, SE

Residents should contact their health care providers if they feel sick or believe they might have been exposed to COVID-19. Mayor Bowser has mandated that all DC-licensed health insurers cover COVID-19 testing with no cost sharing for certain high-risk residents. If your doctor is not available or cannot give you a COVID-19 test, visit a free public testing site near you. Public testing sites are for individuals 3 years of age and older.

For more information on public testing sites as well as other providers offering COVID-19 tests, visit NeedATestGetATest.com. To save time in line when visiting a public testing site, residents should preregister at coronavirus.dc.gov/register.

Testing and quarantining go together. It is important that residents stay at home while waiting for their test results in order to help protect the community from further spread of COVID-19.

For more information on the District’s response, visit coronavirus.dc.gov.