Coronavirus drive-through site to open in Swansea
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Drive-through testing for the coronavirus will be available beginning Thursday in Swansea, a spokeswoman for Memorial Hospital in Belleville said Wednesday.
You will only be allowed to go to the “specimen collection” site if you have prior authorization from your doctor and your local health department.
“Before coming to this collection site, community members need to first contact their primary care physician who will work with the local health departments to pre-screen and validate if you need to come to the specimen collection site,” Memorial Hospital spokeswoman Anne Thomure said in an email.
The COVID-19 specimen collection site will be opened by Memorial Hospital in cooperation with the St. Clair County Health Department.
Here are the details:
Location: 4000 North Illinois Lane in Swansea (former location of Siteman Cancer Center)
Time: Noon to 6 p.m., seven days a week, beginning Thursday, March 19
Note: If you have not completed the pre-screening process with your physician and health department, you cannot go to the drive-through collection site.
Other information about the testing site was not released.
Drive-through testing sites have opened up across the nation, including in St. Louis County. In these other sites, patients have had nasal and oral swabs taken.
This story was originally published March 18, 2020 at 7:19 PM.
