TWO new community centres handing out free covid-19 test kits will open in Ellesmere Port and Chester next week. They will open on Tuesday, May 4, near Chester Retail Park and the other at Ellesmere Port Library. The community collect service offers free packs of covid-19 test kits for residents to do at home as part of the Government recommendation that we all test twice a week regardless of whether we have been vaccinated or not. One in three people with covid-19 do not show any symptoms so these twice-weekly tests, known as Lateral Flow Tests (LFTs) are aimed at people without symptoms, to help stop people from spreading it unwittingly.
FREE Covid test kits are now available for everyone to collect in Cheshire West. One in three people with Covid-19 do not show any symptoms so these twice-weekly tests, known as Lateral Flow Tests (LFTs) are aimed at people without symptoms, to help stop people from spreading it unwittingly. The free tests can be accessed in a number of ways:
A new ‘Pharmacy Collect’ service enabling people aged over 18 without symptoms to visit a participating local pharmacy and collect tests to use twice a week at home – find your nearest participating pharmacy by visiting: maps.test-and-trace.nhs.uk
Community testing at an LFT testing centre in the borough – including Winsford Lifestyle Centre, Stanney Oaks Leisure Centre in Ellesmere Port and at Chester Cathedral
NINE months of further road closures are expected to cause significant disruption in Chester city centre from next month. Currently, the Clockwise Chester scheme has been able to see a new, large surface rainwater drain installed along St Martin s Way and Nicholas Street, with little disruption, largely thanks to the ongoing coronavirus restrictions limiting traffic, and also due to the implementation of a new one-way system for Chester s ring road. Large-scale drainage tunnel works on St Martin s Way. That has seen traffic go one way clockwise around Nicholas Street, St Martin s Way, Vicars Lane and Pepper Street, with St Oswald s Way unaffected and continuing to have traffic flow in both directions.