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Targeted COVID-19 rapid community testing continues
Targeted COVID-19 rapid community testing continues
Wiltshire
27/02/2021
Targeted COVID-19 rapid community testing continues – you can now book appointments at Devizes, Salisbury and Chippenham
Our roll out of the
government’s rapid COVID-19 community testing initiative locally to help drive
down transmission rates continues, with bookings now being taken for the
Chippenham centre.
The programme, in partnership with the Department of Health and Social
Care, is specifically aimed at asymptomatic people at small businesses who
cannot work from home, and private early years settings and childminders.
Eligible people will take a Lateral Flow Test.
You can book a test at our centres at Devizes Leisure Centre, Five Rivers
Health and Wellbeing Centre in Salisbury and now Monkton Park in Chippenham.
Another centre will open in due course in Trowbridge but for the time being you can only book a place at Devizes,
Salisbury and Chippenham.
The centres cannot accept people dropping in, and everyone must book an
appointment and not have any symptoms of COVID-19.
The self-administered test should take no more than 15 minutes and results
should be known within half an hour.
This is not to be confused with surge testing. Surge testing is increased
testing (including door-to-door testing) and enhanced contact tracing in
specific locations in England and is not currently taking place in Wiltshire.
Free testing continues to be available to everyone in Wiltshire who has
COVID-19 symptoms – high temperature, continuous cough or loss of/change in
taste or smell. You should go online or call 119 to
book a test in that instance.
Anyone who receives a positive Lateral Flow Test result automatically activates
legal obligations to self-isolate, and may also claim for a Test and Trace
payment if they are eligible.
You can book your place on our website, where you will
also find additional information, including FAQs.