The COVID-19 facilities operated by the D.C. Division of Well being can have their remaining day of operation on March 31, 2023, the company introduced Friday.
The numerous drop in COVID-19 circumstances throughout the District and concurrent rise in vaccinations supplied the impetus for the approaching closures.
First opened in January 2022, the COVID-19 facilities supplied D.C. residents with masks, fast antigen exams, PCR exams, and vaccines totally free.
The COVID-19 facilities supplied over a million masks, greater than 80,000 photographs of the COVID-19 vaccine, its boosters, and the flu vaccine, greater than 400,000 fast antigen exams, and greater than 40,000 PCR exams.
“And as we’re popping out of the general public well being emergency — we’ve been out for a while within the District and the federal authorities is popping out — and we see demand at these facilities happening, it’s time now to shift these sources to different ways in which we maintain folks wholesome within the District,” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser informed WTOP.
Residents in want of these objects and companies after March 31 will have the ability to receive them at native pharmacies.
Different choices embody discovering free testing and vaccination places on web sites operated by the federal Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention or getting exams from the federal authorities. U.S. residents are eligible to order 4 free at-home COVID-19 exams.
