NASHVILLE – With coronavirus cases spiking in rural areas of Tennessee, Gov. Bill Lee’s administration announced Wednesday that officials are restarting free drive-thru COVID-19 testing sites this Saturday, beginning in three counties, among them Grundy County.
“We’ve seen an upward trend in COVID cases in rural Tennessee that are cause for concern,” state Health Commissioner Dr. Lisa Piercey said in a news release released by the governor’s Unified Command group. “Bringing back weekend drive-thru testing helps with access to testing which will help combat COVID-19’s continued health threat.”
In addition to testing, Piercey said Tennesseans “need to take simple, yet impactful, precautions – wearing masks, washing hands and social distancing – to protect themselves.”
Testing sites will be open from 9 a.m. to noon local time and will remain open until all vehicles in line have received tests, officials say.
The drive-thru testing site for Grundy County is Grundy County High School in Coalmont. Another is in Fentress County, also on the Cumberland Plateau, with officials using the Fentress County Senior Citizens Center in Jamestown.