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HOME Covid-19 testing kits are now available to collect at more than a dozen sites across Cheshire West and Chester. Kits can be picked up from Cheshire West and Chester Council no-symptoms testing centres and a number of libraries across the borough. The home testing kits are currently available for people who live with or share a bubble with children or staff who attend nursery, school or college. The new Community Collect points include:
Covid-19 no symptoms testing centre at Stanney Oaks Leisure Centre, in Ellesmere Port, from 9am to 7pm Monday to Friday, and from 9am to 1pm on Saturdays
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Now, the UK government has instructed the local authority - via the Scottish Government - to open up eight new centres by April.
A briefing note, sent to councillors on Tuesday February 16, reads: “We have been approached by the Scottish Government on behalf of the UK Government to provide a further eight Local Testing Sites (LTS) in Edinburgh.
“This expansion aims to:
Close the gap between the number of people being tested and the estimated number of daily new cases in the mid- to long-term;
Focus on areas of higher deprivation and low car ownership to increase access to testing; and maximise the amount of people with symptoms who get tested, by making testing easy to access (and then support these individuals to self-isolate, contact trace their contacts, and break chains of transmission).
Updated: Tue 29th Dec
This article is old - Published: Tuesday, Dec 29th, 2020
Each of the six counties across North Wales now has at least one testing site, open seven-days-a-week and with some operating from 8am-8pm.
Teresa Owen, Executive Director of Public Health at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, urged people to book an appointment at their nearest centre if they are showing symptoms of COVID-19.
She also backed the Welsh Government’s
Help Us, Help You campaign, encouraging members of the public to correctly access NHS services and not turn up at emergency departments with ailments that could have been treated by a GP, pharmacist or minor injuries unit.
WITH every county in North Wales being home to a test centre, a health director is urging people with symptoms to book a test. There are 11 COVID-19 test centres serving communities across all six counties in the region open seven-days-a-week and with some operating from 8am-8pm. Teresa Owen, executive director of Public Health at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, urged people to book an appointment at their nearest centre if they are showing symptoms of COVID-19. She also backed the Welsh Government’s Help Us, Help You campaign, encouraging members of the public to correctly access NHS services and not turn up at emergency departments with ailments that could have been treated by a GP, pharmacist or minor injuries unit.