St. Paris library offering at-home COVID tests

Article from Urbana Daily Citizen


​The St Paris Public Library and Christiansburg Community Library will begin distributing free COVID-19 at-home test kits beginning next week. Tests will be available curbside at the libraries during hours of operation.

Previous articles in the Daily Citizen noted the Mechanicsburg Public Library and the Champaign County Library and its North Lewisburg branch are distributing the free at-home tests.

The state has secured the purchase of at least 2 million tests that can be self-administered outside of a clinical setting. The new Abbott BinaxNOW Home Test can be provided to individuals for at-home use and is packaged with a telehealth session to oversee test administration, including prescription writing and result reporting. The state’s objective is to make rapid testing much more broadly accessible throughout the state.