Drive-Through COVID Testing Site in Glynn County to Close (Photo by Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images/Getty Images)

BRUNSWICK, Ga. — The Coastal Health District’s drive-through COVID-19 collection site in Brunswick is set to close on Saturday, Sept. 17.

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For more than a year, the district has operated the site in partnership with the Southeast Georgia Health System. The drive-through COVID-19 collection site for PCR testing is on Kemble Avenue, outside the hospital’s emergency care center.

“With free PCR and rapid antigen testing so readily available elsewhere, we can close this site without jeopardizing anyone’s ability to get COVID testing,” said Dr. Lawton Davis, Health director of the Coastal Health District. “We encourage residents to use our PCR testing kiosks, which are available for free testing all day, every day.”

The PCR test kit, which uses a nasal swab to collect specimens from an individual person, is dispensed at the Kiosks. Once a person uses the test it is safely packaged back into the kit and placed within the kiosk.

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The samples are picked up daily from the kiosks and sent to a lab for PCR testing. Results take about 48 hours or less to process.

The test-and-go kiosk in Brunswick can be found outside the Glynn County Health Department at 2747 Fourth St.

Free at-home rapid antigen tests are also available at all county health departments in the district.

For more information, visit the District’s COVID-19 website at www.covid19.gachd.org.

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