Drive‐Thru COVID‐19 Collection Event

Sep 03, 2020 COVID-19, Coronavirus, testing

CCCHC will be conducting a free COVID‐19 collection event on Tuesday, Sept. 15^th from 7:30‐9:30 a.m. in the SMC Ambulance Bay. Individuals wanting testing are asked to enter west of the Mercer County Ambulance building and drive thru the SMC Ambulance Bay to be tested. Pre‐registration for this event is available at https://testreg.nd.gov/. This process is strongly recommended to speed up your overall testing event experience.

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