Last day for the Coronavirus Mobile Test Centre in Litherland

After several successful sessions in Southport and Maghull, Litherland has playEd host to its first Coronavirus Mobile Test Centre this week.

Located at Litherland Sports Park on Wednesday 3rd, Thursday 4th and Friday 5th June, the site has provided clinical diagnosis tests that tell people if they currently have the Covid-19 virus.

Tests are available for anyone but they need to have made an appointment first at www.nhs.uk/coronavirus  or by calling 119.  Essential workers still need to book through www.gov.uk/apply-coronavirus-test-essential-workers.

Through the Government’s new NHS Test and Trace service, anyone who tests positive for coronavirus will be contacted and will need to share information about their recent interactions. This could include household members, people with whom they have been in direct contact, or within 2 metres for more than 15 minutes.

Those people identified as having been in close contact with someone who has had a positive test result will then be required to stay at home for 14 days. They must do this even if they do not have symptoms, to prevent them spreading the virus without knowing.

People in isolation who develop symptoms can book their own test at www.nhs.uk/coronavirus  or by calling 119. If they test positive, they must continue to stay at home for 7 days or until their symptoms have passed. If they test negative, they must complete the 14-day isolation period.

Last week, the Government announced it was starting to provide Antibody tests, which indicates whether someone has previously had the virus but this is currently only for NHS workers and patients.

Testing is vital to the ongoing work to overcome COVID-19 and enable key workers who test negative to return to that work and almost 2,500 people have already been tested at the Borough’s previous Mobile Test Sites.

Questions & Answers on Test and Trace and Antibody testing.