Where you can pick up home testing kits in Herefordshire this week

Monday, 9 August 2021 09:41

Herefordshire Council are out and about around the county giving out home testing kits every week.

The testing programme for Covid-19 is playing a vital role in helping to keep us all safe by identifying those who have the virus, but no symptoms, so that they can self-isolate and avoid passing the virus to others. Around one in three people who are infected with Covid-19 have no symptoms. Rapid testing using lateral flow test devices (LFT) is a fast and simple way to test people who are not showing symptoms, and helps us to stop spreading Covid-19 without realising it.

This week* council staff will be at:

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