Governor Janet T. Mills (D) at a Recent Indoor Event in Portland.

CURATIVE, a self-administered nasal swab COVID-19 testing company, is opening a new testing site in the Cross Insurance Arena on Wednesday, January 12.  No more information is available on this Portland facility at this time.

Currently, CURATIVE has a self-administered testing site at the Portland International Jetport – a  site that is accepting walk-ins.

Governor Janet Mills (D), the first woman ‘governor of Maine, announced today that the State has purchased an additional 250,000 COVID-19 rapid antigen tests from Maine-based manufacturer Abbott Labs and will distribute them to Walgreens pharmacies, health care sites, schools and congregate care settings across Maine this month and in February.  This purchase of rapid antigen tests is one of the largest ever by the State and represents nearly a quarter of all the rapid tests the State has made available since the  beginning of the pandemic.

The State ordered the additional BINAXNOW rapid antigen tests to increase the availability of free tests for all Maine residents administered at Walgreens pharmacy locations across the state.  Additionally, these rapid tests will support the testing of Maine’s health care workforce, school staff and students through the pooled testing program, as well as staff and residents of congregate settings, such as homeless shelters, long-term care facilities and correctional facilities.

On January 5, 2022, Maine also hit a new COVID-19 milestone.  Eighty percent of eligible Maine residents, ages 5 and older have been fully vaccinated.  Maine is the third state in the nation, after Vermont and Rhode Island, to achieve this level of vaccination.

For more background information on CURATIVE, please visit posts herein dated December 15 and December 26, 2021.