Backwards contact tracing under way in Cambridgeshire
The process helps experts better understand how Covid spreads
More staff and lower rates of the virus has allowed for backwards contact tracing (Image: Getty Images)
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Cambridgeshire is now undertaking “backwards contact tracing” to delve deeper into how the virus spreads.
Published:
12:55 PM April 28, 2021
Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council held a ‘Tweetathon’ in a bid to raise awareness of rapid Covid-19 testing.
- Credit: Twitter/@CambsCC
A collaborative ‘Tweetathon’ between Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council reached more than 100,000 people.
In a bid to promote and raise awareness of rapid Covid-19 testing, both councils took to Twitter to share promotional pictures and videos.
Dr Liz Robin, Director of Public Health for Cambridgeshire, explains why everyone should take a free rapid test twice a week and the different ways you can get tested#rapidtestcambspic.twitter.com/YsEATRiQb2 Cambridgeshire County Council (@CambsCC) April 23, 2021
“We need everybody to get into the habit of twice-weekly testing as part of our everyday lives.
“A one-off test will offer little benefit as it can only provide information about likelihood of being infectious at that point in time.
“Twice-weekly testing will help to keep each other safe and alongside the ongoing vaccine rollout, it will help us to move forward with the roadmap out of lockdown.”
Secondary and college students are already being given tests to use at home twice a week, throughout term time and the holidays.
You can also collect tests to complete at home from the PCR testing sites, the rapid testing site at the Queen Mary Centre, Wisbech, and pharmacies that have signed up to offer Pharmacy Collect.
Fenland District Council urge residents to test for Covid-19 cambstimes.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cambstimes.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Covid tests: All the places you can get a rapid Covid test in Cambridgeshire as NHS rolls out twice-weekly tests for everyone
Boris Johnson announced this week that from April 9 anyone can get a rapid test twice a week. (Image: Cambridge News)
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