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WV to Offer Free In-Home Coronavirus Testing Kits

December 3rd, 2020 by WCBC Radio

West Virginians will soon be able to get tested for COVID-19 in their own homes. The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources plans to begin offering free in-home COVID-19 testing kits from Vault Health Inc. "within a couple of weeks,"  according to  DHHR Secretary Bill Crouch.  Residents will be able call or go online and request a test kit be mailed to them. Although encouraged with the testing news and the fact that vaccines are just a few weeks from being made available in the state, Governor Jim Justice began his briefing with some alarming COVID numbers which have about half of the state in designated hot spots…