Wrangell Sentinel -

SEARHC soon will move into its second year of providing free COVID-19 testing for Wrangell residents and visitors to the community.

The testing is covered under a state contract that had been scheduled to stop Dec. 31 but which has been extended to the end of the state budget year June 30, said Carly Allen, hospital administrator for the SEARHC-operated Wrangell Medical Center.

The state-funded tests for travelers and community members who are not showing any symptoms of the virus are available from noon to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday at the testing trailer in the WMC parking lot, Allen...