Health & Fitness
Philly Offering Free Rapid, Home Coronavirus Tests
There are numerous chances to get free, at home, rapid coronavirus tests this week ahead of the holidays. See where to get them here.
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia is giving out free, rapid, at home coronavirus tests ahead of the holidays.
The city is offering the free tests at various locations across the city this week.
Test kits were paid for by CDC funding, according to the city.
Find out what's happening in Philadelphiafor free with the latest updates from Patch.
Below are sites where free tests are available:
Tuesday
Find out what's happening in Philadelphiafor free with the latest updates from Patch.
- 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. — Tacony Library, 6742 Torresdale Ave., 19135
- 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lillian Marrero Library, 601 W. Lehigh Ave., 19133
- 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. — Lonnie Young Recreation Center, 1100 E. Chelten Ave., 19138
Wednesday
- 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. — Lawncrest Library, 6098 Rising Sun Ave., 19111
- 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. — MLK Older Adult Center, 2101 Cecil B. Moore Ave., 19121
Thursday
- 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. — Waterview Recreation Center, 5826 McMahon Ave., 19144
Philadelphia residents can receive two test kits, each containing two tests. You don’t need to be vaccinated or get vaccinated to receive them.
In the last two weeks, 7.2 percent of tests in Philadelphia have come back positive.
Thus far during the pandemic, 187,362 Philadelphians have been diagnosed with coronavirus, and 4,157 have succumbed to the virus. Philadelphia is averaging 641 new cases of coronavirus per day over the last two weeks.
The Department of Health reports 387 patients with coronavirus are currently being treated in Philadelphia hospitals, with a total of 44 on ventilators.
The total number of fully vaccinated Philadelphians is at least 952,776, and the number of Philadelphians with at least one dose of vaccine to at least 1,194,950.
Currently, 76.7 percent of Philadelphia adults are fully vaccinated, and 96.2 percent of Philadelphia adults have received at least one dose vaccine.
All residents age five and older are eligible to be vaccinated in Philadelphia; 21.2 percent of 5-to-11-year-olds in Philadelphia have received at least one vaccine dose.
Among eligible Philadelphians ages 12 and older, 71.1 percent are fully vaccinated, and 89.1 percent have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
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