{"id":48850,"date":"2021-02-03T19:14:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T02:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-county-offers-free-drive-up-covid-19-testing\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:45:00","slug":"montezuma-county-offers-free-drive-up-covid-19-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-county-offers-free-drive-up-covid-19-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma County offers free drive-up COVID-19 testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fcbabf3d-cc2b-4d58-8d7a-65c27d6a51fb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1867\" alt=\"As of Wednesday, Feb.3, the Montezuma County Public Health Department reported 1,617 confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in the county.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">As of Wednesday, Feb.3, the Montezuma County Public Health Department reported 1,617 confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in the county.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Southwest Health System<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The effort is a collaboration between Montezuma County Health Department and Southwest Health System.<\/p>\n<p>The free testing is first-come, first-served. No appointments are required.<\/p>\n<p>Testing is available for everyone. Individuals are not required to show symptoms to get a test.<\/p>\n<p>Those getting a test are required to bring identification, such as a driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday, Feb. 3, the Montezuma County Public Health Department reported 1,617 confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in the county. Of those cases, 430 are active, and 1,167 have been resolved.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen deaths have been attributed to the novel coronavirus in Montezuma County since the beginning of the pandemic. An additional seven people have died after testing positive for the coronavirus, but the virus was not the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:anicotera@the-journal.com\">anicotera@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of Wednesday, Feb.3, the Montezuma County Public Health Department reported 1,617 confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in the county.Southwest Health System The effort is a collaboration between Montezuma County Health Department and Southwest Health System. The free testing is first-come, first-served. No appointments are required. Testing is available for everyone. Individuals are not required to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-48850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87470,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48850\/revisions\/87470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48850"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=48850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}