Today, Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding announced that workers
supporting Pennsylvania’s food supply chain in select areas of eastern
Pennsylvania – from farmers and seasonal laborers, to food processing
facilities and warehouses, and grocery store workers – would be eligible
for priority COVID-19 testing at the Montgomery County mass testing
site or the federally funded testing size in Luzerne County, at the
Mohegan Sun.
The prioritized testing is a direct result of agriculture and the entire
food supply chain being deemed as life sustaining, combined with hot
spots of COVID-19 in Montgomery County and northeast Pennsylvania, where
many of Pennsylvania’s food processing facilities are located. The
priority testing is available to any symptomatic adult working in
agriculture or food supply who lives or works in Montgomery County or
the counties of northeast Pennsylvania, including Susquehanna, Wyoming,
Luzerne, Carbon, Monroe, Pike, Wayne and Lackawanna.
Testing at the identified sites comes at no cost, as the tests are run
through Pennsylvania’s public laboratory system. A process has been
outlined for symptomatic adults, which provides them an appointment for
testing within one day of registration.
For information as it relates to agriculture during COVID-19 mitigation
in Pennsylvania visit
agriculture.pa.gov/COVID. For information related
to Health in Pennsylvania, visit
on.pa.gov/coronavirus.
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