LA County Restarts Take-Home COVID-19 Test Program

An at-home COVID-19 nasal swab testing kit provided by the Los Angeles County Home Test Collection program, which provides test kits to county residents for free via mail, is seen in this file photo. The program was temporarily paused on Jan. 5, 2022. Courtesy of County of Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles County reintroduced a take-home program for COVID-19 test kits Jan. 10 as a way to expand testing during the rapid surge in infections.

The county paused a similar delivery-only program a week earlier due to “logistics of processing these kits,” according to authorities.