County COVID-19 test site closing

The Skagit County drive-through COVID-10 testing site will close permanently after March 12, Skagit Public Health announced Feb. 17. It is closed Saturdays effective immediately, due to low use that day, the County announced Monday.

Public Health and Unified Command made the decision to close the testing site in order to focus on vaccine distribution. “We provide vaccine clinics out of the fairgrounds as well, and closing testing will allow us to focus our resources on those efforts,” County spokesperson Laura Han wrote in an email Monday. “Additionally, unlike when we initially started provid...