Sgt. 1st Class Michael Davis Jr./U.S. Army
The first drive-thru COVID-19 testing site in Western Maryland will open Tuesday at the Vehicle Emissions station in Hagerstown, Gov. Larry Hogan said Monday.
Hogan had said on Wednesday that Maryland would add more drive-thru testing sites as part of the state’s expanded testing strategy. Other priorities for testing include nursing homes, health care workers and first responders, the governor had said. Testing sites also would be added in Wicomico and Caroline counties to address outbreaks at poultry plants on the Delmarva Peninsula, he said at the time.
“With the tests we recently acquired from South Korea, Maryland continues to implement an expanded testing strategy,” Hogan said in a statement released Monday. “Drive-thru testing at Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program stations provides an easily accessible option for many citizens, and we now have the resources to continue to expand these sites throughout the state.”
The governor, with the assistance of first Lady Yumi Hogan, who was born in South Korea, said on April 20 that his administration had acquired 500,000 COVID-19 testing kits from two companies in that country.
With the addition of Hagerstown, there will be eight VEIP testing sites operated by the Maryland Department of Health in:
