KEARNEY - Over a three-day period, National Guardsmen tested more than 450 people at six sites in the panhandle. The tests were offered to individuals who were symptomatic or who believed they were exposed to a coronavirus positive individual.

Chadron had the most persons tested, at 95, likely because Dawes County reported its first case of the coronavirus Friday. That case had been reported in a man in his 30s, who was identified as a close contact of a previous case. Other testing numbers were: 75 tests, Sidney; 76, Oshkosh; 64, Bridgeport; 70, Alliance; 73, Gordon. Twenty members of the Nebraska National Guards Team 6 conducted the public testing

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