Free COVID-19 testing returns to Cole County

January 12, 2021 at 6:05 a.m. | Updated January 12, 2021 at 1:42 p.m.

Sgt. Cameron Lincks administers a COVID-19 test on an individual as they remain seated in their vehicle. Lincks is with the 138th Infantry in Kansas City and is one of the two dozen or so members of the Missouri National Guard who are in Jefferson City to perform 1,500 COVID tests over a three-day period. The tests are free of charge, but registration is required.
Sgt. Cameron Lincks administers a COVID-19 test on an individual as they remain seated in their vehicle. Lincks is with the 138th Infantry in Kansas City and is one of the two dozen or so members of the Missouri National Guard who are in Jefferson City to perform 1,500 COVID tests over a three-day period. The tests are free of charge, but registration is required.

A free community COVID-19 testing event is planned in Jefferson City next week.

The testing - provided by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, the Missouri Primary Care Association and MAKO Medical - is scheduled 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Jan. 20 in the parking lot of American Legion Post 5, 1423 Tanner Bridge Road.

The test is done with a nasal swab to determine if there is an active infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It is not an antigen or antibody test.

To register for this or any free testing event in the state, visit health.mo.gov/ communitytest.

Missouri residency is the only requirement. People need not live in the county in which they are tested, nor do they have to be experiencing symptoms to receive the test.

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