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COVID-19 Testing and Drive-Thru Flu Shot Sites to Close Thursday Due to Forecasted Effects from Remnants of Hurricane Zeta

DECATUR, Ga. – Due to the threat of inclement weather conditions from the remnants of Hurricane Zeta, the DeKalb County Board of Health will close its COVID-19 testing and drive-thru flu shot locations on Thursday, October 29.

COVID-19 testing appointments scheduled for Thursday will be moved to Friday and Saturday.

Drive-thru flu shot appointments scheduled for Thursday will be rescheduled to Friday and next week.

For more resources and information about COVID-19, visit the DeKalb County Board of Health’s COVID-19 website at dekalbpublichealth.com/covid-19. Information about the flu and immunization programs, including on-site worksite or community flu clinics, visit dekalbpublichealth.com/flu or call 404-294-3700, Option 2.

AIR QUALITY UPDATE 

Current weather models show that winds will begin to shift
from the east to the west after sunset on Wednesday.

Smoke from the BioLab facility fire in Rockdale County is predicted to settle towards the ground as it moves toward Atlanta. There is a high likelihood that people across Metro Atlanta will wake up on Thursday morning seeing haze and smelling chlorine.

For more information about health precautions, click here.

last updated 10/2/2024 at 5:45 p.m.

Warning SERVICE ALERT UPDATE Warning

DeKalb Public Health will resume normal operations
for all health centers and services at 8:15 a.m.,
on Monday, September 30.

SERVICE ALERT 

Due to today’s worldwide cybersecurity outage, some services have been impacted.

  • You may experience delays reaching our Call Center, which handles health center appointments.
  • WIC benefit issuance is unavailable at this time. However, eWIC cards can still be used at authorized WIC vendors.


This outage has not only affected DeKalb Public Health, but other government and business services, in Georgia, throughout the nation and internationally.

We apologize for the inconvenience and greatly appreciate your patience, as we work with our partners to fully restore systems.

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SERVICE ALERT: Our health centers will be closed on Monday, November 11th, in observance of the Veterans Day holiday.

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SERVICE ALERT: Our health centers will be closed on Monday, September 2, in observance of the holiday. Have a safe and healthy Labor Day! 

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