The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending more than $29 million to the State of Connecticut to reimburse the state for the cost of providing testing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The $29,085,642 FEMA Public Assistance grant to the Connecticut State Comptroller’s Office will reimburse it for contracting to provide 381,181 COVID-19 tests between April and June 2021.
The Comptroller’s Office contracted the following vendors to conduct COVID testing: CIC Health, SEMA4 Genomics, Griffen Hospital, Minute Clinic/CVS, Quest Diagnostics, Yale New Haven Hospital, Bridgeport Hospital and Physician One Urgent Care Hospital.
The populations tested included high risk community residents, National Guard members, nursing home residents, Department of Corrections inmates, and state employees working at state facilities.
“FEMA is pleased to be able to assist the State of Connecticut with these costs,” said FEMA Region 1 Regional Administrator Lori Ehrlich. “Providing resources for our partners on the front lines of the pandemic fight is critical to their success, and our success as a nation.”
FEMA’s Public Assistance program is an essential source of funding for states and communities recovering from a federally declared disaster or emergency.
So far, FEMA has provided more than $452 million in Public Assistance grants to Connecticut to reimburse the state for pandemic-related expenses.
Additional information about FEMA’s Public Assistance program is available at https://www.fema.gov/public-assistance-local-state-tribal-and-non-profit. To learn more about the COVID-19 response in Connecticut, please visit https://www.fema.gov/disaster/4500.
