Sussex County Closing COVID-19 Testing Center

SUSSEX COUNTY, NJ - The County of Sussex will be closing down the COVID-19 testing center at Sussex County Community College, effective Friday, due to a downtrend in testing since May 22.

“The demand for tests at our County testing center has dropped to a point where we have to consider the allocation of our already limited resources and staff,” said Sussex County Freeholder Anthony Fasano, liaison for Sussex County’s Division of Health. “However, our residents should know that if the demand for COVID-19 testing goes back up, so will our testing center.”

From Friday, May 8, through Wednesday, June 10, there were 328 tests performed at the college testing site, with 247 of them negative and nine with positive results. There are 64 test results still pending, with 55 of those tests performed on June 5, June 8 and June 10, with none of the results to those tests yet available.

Sussex County Administrator Greg Poff said there were 10 tests performed on June 10 and only 11 tests scheduled for June 12. He said county residents can still be tested in the county at the CVS stores in Sparta and Byram; and as long as it remains open, the test site at the County College of Morris.

Also:

• The County hosts an interactive map of test sites available: www.sussex.nj.us/covid19.
• The state’s map of test sites is accessible at: https://covid19.nj.gov.
• Sussex County residents who would like to schedule a test at the Sussex County
• Community College testing center on or before June 19, should visit:
• www.sussex.nj.us/covid19 and click on “Drive-Thru Test Center.”

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