Coronavirus

Dallas coronavirus tests open to grocery store workers, essential personnel without symptoms

Dallas County will open its coronavirus test sites to include essential personnel with no symptoms beginning Monday.

Essential workers include first responders, DART drivers, healthcare workers, and grocery store and essential retail store employees.

The sites operate daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and are located in Dallas at American Airlines Center, Parking Lot E, 2500 Victory Plaza, and Ellis Davis Field House, 9191 S Polk St.

Criteria for COVID-19 testing sites are as follows:

• Anyone with a temperature of 99.6 or higher and shortness of breath or cough.

• Anyone 65 or older.

• Anyone with chronic health issues (diabetes, asthma, heart issues, etc.)

• Any first responders, DART drivers, healthcare workers, grocery store and essential retail store workers.

You don’t need to be a resident of Dallas to get tested.

For more information on the test sites and other resources, visit dallascityhall.com/covid19.

Texas at-risk businesses

Areas in red have a higher concentration of one or more of five high-risk business categories caused by the economic downturn from the coronavirus: Clothing/Accessory stores, General Merchandise stores, Arts/Entertainment/Recreation, Accommodation, and Food Service/Drinking Places. Tap map for a breakdown of at-risk businesses. Zoom into the map for a more detailed breakdown of that area. Data is from 2019 from Esri demographics, Infogroup.


Stefan Stevenson
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Stefan Stevenson was a sports writer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram from 1997 to 2022. He covered TCU athletics, the Texas Rangers and the Dallas Cowboys.
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