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Together, we can protect our loved ones and limit the impact of COVID-19 on our community. With your help, we will slow the spread of COVID-19 so we can once again safely come together with friends and family.

While right now we are safer at home, North Carolinians cannot stay home indefinitely. Increased testing, expanded contact tracing, and tracking important data will help us ease measures and protect you, your loved ones, and neighbors.

Helping people know if they have COVID-19 or may have been exposed is critical to ensuring they have the resources and support they need and informs when and how we can responsibly ease restrictions.

Who Should Get Tested?

Anyone with symptoms of COVID-19.

Close contacts of known positive cases, regardless of symptoms.

Groups of some of the populations with higher risk of exposure or a higher risk of severe disease if they become infected. People in these groups should get tested if they believe they may have been exposed to COVID-19, whether or not they have symptoms. People who live in or have regular contact with high-risk settings (e.g., long-term care facility, homeless shelter, correctional facility, migrant farmworker camp). People from historically marginalized populations who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. This fact sheet provides best practices for community testing in historically marginalized populations. Frontline and essential workers (grocery store clerks, gas station attendants, child care workers, construction sites, processing plants, etc.) Health care workers or first responders. People who are at higher risk of severe illness.

People who have attended protests, rallies, or other mass gatherings could have been exposed to someone with COVID-19 or could have exposed others.

Most people who get COVID-19 recover without needing medical care. If you are experiencing severe, life threating symptoms (for example, severe difficulty breathing, altered thinking, blue lips), seek immediate medical care or call 9-1-1.

Steps to Take After You Get a Test

Interested in Hosting a Testing Event?

NCDHHS released a Partner COVID-19 Testing Toolkit designed for organizations seeking to host community testing events. The comprehensive toolkit comes in response to widespread interest among North Carolina organizations such as community-based organizations, churches and nonprofits. Read the toolkit in English and Spanish.

Below are frequently asked questions about testing. Read these FAQs in Spanish.