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Free COVID-19 testing site open Monday at East Mount Airy church

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Updated  April 20, 2020 5:29pm EDT
Coronavirus
FOX 29 Philadelphia

Free COVID-19 testing site open Monday at East Mount Airy churche

Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church organized the free testing event in conjunction with the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium. FOX 29's Joyce Evans reports.

PHILADELPHIA - A church in Philadelphia’s East Mount Airy section became the home to a free COVID-19 testing site for those with symptoms on Monday.

Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church organized the event in conjunction with the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium.

The free testing site was opened for those who have symptoms or have been in contact with someone who tested positive in the past 14 days. No doctors note will be required for testing.

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Some of the symptoms required for testing include coughing, sneezing, sore throat, shortness of breath, fever, loss of smell, loss of taste, diarrhea, or weakness.

SKYFOX was over the testing site as it opened Monday where hundreds of cars could already be seen lined up, awaiting their tests.

Hundreds of cars lined up for free testing at Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church Monday.

Pennsylvania on Sunday reached 32,284 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The death toll climbed to 1,112.

Philadelphia has accounted for 9,214 of those cases, including 365 deaths. 

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Dr. Ala Stanford is part of a group of doctors working to bring testing to those who may not have access to it.

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