Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 testing sites across the state will begin offering self-testing kits to adults three days a week starting this Monday, December 21 to allow staff members to transition to vaccination of frontline health care providers and first responders. Local county health departments will continue to offer COVID-19 testing five days a week at no charge for anyone who wishes to be tested. The self-tests are not approved for use in children under age 18. Both children and adults can still receive the standard nasal swab COVID-19 tests on Tuesdays and Thursdays at their county health department.
Tennessee Department of Health county health departments will be closed and will not offer COVID-19 testing Dec. 24 – 25 and Dec. 31, 2020 – Jan. 1, 2021 in observance of the Christmas and New Year’s holidays.