Problems booking slots for rapid-result testing for people without Covid symptoms in Thanet and Swale
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Updated: 13:18, 31 December 2020
A Covid-19 test booking system recently launched for people without symptoms is running into problems with many unable to get through to secure a slot.
The Kent County Council-run service, rolled out in Thanet and Swale, is for rapid-result testing, aimed at people who may be unknowingly spreading the virus in the community.
Queues outside the Sheerness East Working Men's Club coronavirus testing station at Halfway on Sheppey
But many trying to book a slot through the kcc.healthit.org.uk website, shared by the authority yesterday, have been unable to get through, instead being met with a 'page error' message.