Dubois County Health Department Closing Testing Site

Evansville IN

17 May, 2022

12:07 PM

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By Sarah Kuper, WNIN May 17, 2022 After June 30th, the Dubois County Health Department will no longer be testing people for Covid-19. Officials say they have a limited supply of take-home tests to distribute starting May 17th. The at-home tests are free but the department is asking that people only take them if they are particularly vulnerable to the illness or if they are experiencing symptoms. The tests can be picked up from the health department's drive-through on South St. Charles Street. According to the Indiana Covid-19 dashboard, Dubois County's first case was in late March of 2020. Case counts peaked on January 24th of this year with 278 cases reported. Lately the county has seen fewer than ten cases per week. Up to this point, one hundred and sixty-one Dubois County residents have died from Covid-19. WNIN is the NPR/PBS affiliate in Evansville, Indiana. We serve Southwestern Indiana, Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois from our multimedia facility located on the Ohio River in downtown Evansville. For the past several years, the recognized quality of our local news has placed us among the best small market radio news organizations in the nation.