19 Somerset pharmacies start providing assisted rapid Covid tests for residents
Residents in Somerset now have access to assisted Covid testing via 19 local pharmacies as the county takes another important step in the roadmap out of lockdown.
Somerset’s Director of Public Health, Trudi Grant, pictured, is encouraging everyone to access free, regular, rapid Covid testing.
This regular testing is for people who do not have symptoms of Covid-19 and is important because it helps to find cases which would otherwise go unidentified, as well as contributing to the process of identifying and suppressing new variants of concern.
So far, 19 Somerset pharmacies below have signed up to provide assisted testing, so if you have never used a Lateral Flow (rapid) test before, it is a great way to be shown how to do the test correctly.