Delaware Public Health Laboratory Breaks Ground on Expansion to Meet Testing, Surveillance Demands
Delaware Health and Social Services | Division of Public Health | Date Posted: Wednesday, January 19, 2022
SMYRNA, DE (Jan. 19, 2022) – The Delaware Public Health Laboratory (DPHL) will nearly double in size to increase the capacity for routine and outbreak testing to accommodate advanced technical laboratory staff and the infectious disease epidemiology program. State leaders today held a groundbreaking for the expansion on the property of the Delaware Department of Health and […]
Weekly COVID-19 Update – Jan. 14, 2022: New Positive Cases, Hospitalizations Continue to Trend Upward
Delaware Health and Social Services | Division of Public Health | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, January 14, 2022
DOVER, DE (Jan. 14, 2022) – The Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) is providing an update on the most recent statistics related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Delaware, as of Thursday, Jan 13, 2021. DPH reported the highest number of new positive daily cases since the start of the pandemic with 4,771 positive […]
State of Delaware Partners with FEMA to Open COVID-19 Testing Center
Delaware Health and Social Services | Division of Motor Vehicles | Division of Public Health | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, January 14, 2022
Testing available by appointment at www.ineedacovid19test.com DOVER, DE (JAN. 14, 2022) – The Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) and the Delaware Emergency Management Agency (DEMA) announced today that the State of Delaware is partnering with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to open a free COVID-19 drive-thru testing site from Jan. 17 to Feb. […]
Weekly COVID-19 Update – Jan. 7, 2022: Winter Surge Continues; Current Hospitalizations Continue to Rise
Delaware Health and Social Services | Division of Public Health | Newsroom | Date Posted: Saturday, January 8, 2022
Please note, this press release was updated on Jan. 10, 2022, to correct an error in the total breakthrough cases, and to incorporate additional data points that were not immediately available at the time of the initial release. DOVER, DE (Jan. 7, 2022) – The Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) is providing an update […]
COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters Now Available for Delawareans 12 and Older
Delaware Health and Social Services | Division of Public Health | Date Posted: Thursday, January 6, 2022
The Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) today announced that Delaware’s vaccine providers can now begin administering booster doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to individuals ages 12 to 15 who completed their initial Pfizer vaccine series at least five months ago.
