FREMONT, CA — Fremont will open a free coronavirus testing site Friday. It's at the Fremont Fire Tactical Training Center, 7200 Stevenson Blvd. The hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., but the center will close each day when the maximum number of tests have been exhausted.

The Fremont Fire COVID-19 Testing Center will be open daily.

It will be staffed by Fremont Fire Department Firefighter-Paramedics, Washington Hospital Registered Nurses, and United Ambulance Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs). The overall management of the Testing Center is in coordination with the Fremont Police Department and Newark Police Department.

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"Fremont's new COVID-19 Testing Center is important to our city to ensure that our first responders, public safety personnel, and healthcare and essential service workers are protected when they're on the frontlines serving our community; they need our support," Mayor Lily Mei said. "We thank the City of Hayward for inviting Fremont to join its team, to better prepare ourselves as we roll out our own testing center. We're all stronger when community partners come together to work on creating a solution."

Hayward opened its drive-thru testing center a few weeks ago, with a tremendous response from residents around the Bay Area.

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Each person who goes to the Fremont testing center will be screened in a two-part testing process. First, you must have a fever over 100 degrees. And second, you must have either a cough, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, persistent pain, pressure in the chest, or other COVID-19 respiratory symptoms.

You do not need a referral from doctor to be screened.

The test includes swabbing of the nasal cavities and the back of the throat.

All tests will be provided in a drive-thru line — no walk-up tests will be permitted.

Here are the directions to get to the the Testing Center:

  • enter from westbound Stevenson Boulevard
  • make a right (northbound) turn onto Eureka Drive and line up along the right curb

FIRST RESPONDERS, HEALTH CARE WORKERS

First responders and healthcare workers who are symptomatic for the coronavirus and have a temperature over 100 degrees may schedule a test in advance by calling 510-789-7231.

Like the Hayward site, the tests are analyzed by Avellino Lab USA, Inc., of Menlo Park, a global leader in gene therapy and molecular diagnostics.

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