Sharjah opens its largest drive-through Covid-19 testing centre

Sharjah Municipality (SM) has opened a drive through Covid-19 testing tent in the 5th Industrial Area.

The new tent will ensure the provision of the testing service to the public easily, whereby customers can receive the result within six hours for only Dhs50.

#Sharjah opens largest “#COVID19” drive-thru testing center.#UAE_BARQ_EN pic.twitter.com/BCUbbNrYBB

— UAE BARQ (@UAE_BARQ_EN) March 17, 2022

SM announced that the new facility is the largest drive-through testing tent in Sharjah, capable of accommodating 16 vehicles at a time, official news agency WAM reported.

This facility will ensure conducting large number of tests during its working hours from 7.30am until 11pm, throughout the week.

Meanwhile, Dubai Health Authority (DHA) opened three new drive-through Covid-19 PCR testing centres, it announced earlier this year. The new screening centres in collaboration with Unilabs are located at Al Mankhool, Nad Al Sheba, Nad Al Hammar in Dubai.

Read: Dubai: Three new 24×7 drive-through Covid-19 testing centres open

The UAE has recorded a steady decline in new infections since several weeks. The country’s health ministry reported 386 Covid-19 infections and 1,016 recoveries on March 17.

The Ministry of Health conducts 376,447 tests as part of its plans to expand the scope of the tests, and reveals 386 new cases of the #Coronavirus 1,016 recoveries and and no COVID-19-related deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours.#TogetherWeRecover

— NCEMA UAE (@NCEMAUAE) March 17, 2022