The D.C. government offered free coronavirus testing in front of the White House on Friday, as the number of COVID-19 cases connected to the Trump administration grows.

The city does not plan on regularly providing testing at the site — which was located on a stretch of 16th Street NW known as Black Lives Matter Plaza — a city official said. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday urged people to get tested if they work in the White House or attended the Rose Garden event on Sept. 26 where Amy Coney Barrett was introduced as President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court.

Some D.C. residents sharply criticized the decision to offer testing outside the White House, decrying the move as a political stunt.

Evan Yeats, an advisory neighborhood commissioner, said the tests should have gone to neighborhoods hard-hit by the pandemic, such as communities in wards 4, 5, 7, and 8.

“We need to make sure those are going to the communities that need them the most and with the fewest resources,” he said. “Spending our resources to do a pop-up testing site at the White House, where most people probably have access to healthcare … says to me that it’s more about the political optics.”

The D.C. government has provided free coronavirus testing at firehouses and other locations across the city for several months. The District recently reported a surge in testing after several people who attended the Rose Garden event tested positive for the virus. Last month, dozens of people were turned away from a testing location at Judiciary Square after LabCorp, the city’s main provider of tests, reduced its supply in the District.

City officials reported a surge in demand for tests amid the White House outbreak. Trump and several members of his inner circle, including White House staff, have tested positive for the coronavirus.