16 new community testing facilities will open in Suffolk in the next fortnight
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Nine new Covid-19 testing sites for those who don t display symptoms are being established in the next week in Suffolk, with a further seven in the days following.
Friday s local outbreak engagement board meeting of community leaders confirmed that 16 community testing facilities were in the pipeline, nine of which will be established in the week ahead.
Rapid Covid-19 tests give a result within an hour
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Those to open next week are as follows:
Monday February 22: Framlingham Fire Station, Nayland Fire Station
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8:35 PM December 18, 2020
Local contact tracing for Covid-19 in Suffolk had been 93% successful in November, according to Public Health Suffolk
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Contact tracing teams in Suffolk successfully identified more than 1,000 people at risk of spreading Covid-19 last month, according to latest data - with a success rate of more than 93%.
In November, Public Health Suffolk s contact tracing team worked with 403 positive Covid-19 cases and identified 689 contacts from those cases.
It equates to 93.3% success rate for local contact trace methods, which have helped curb the spread of the infection where the national NHS test and trace service has been unable to.
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8:35 PM December 18, 2020
Local contact tracing for Covid-19 in Suffolk had been 93% successful in November, according to Public Health Suffolk
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Contact tracing teams in Suffolk successfully identified more than 1,000 people at risk of spreading Covid-19 last month, according to latest data - with a success rate of more than 93%.
In November, Public Health Suffolk s contact tracing team worked with 403 positive Covid-19 cases and identified 689 contacts from those cases.
It equates to 93.3% success rate for local contact trace methods, which have helped curb the spread of the infection where the national NHS test and trace service has been unable to.
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4:55 PM December 18, 2020
Key worker priority testing sites for Covid-19 are to be established in east and west Suffolk, Public Health Suffolk has said
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Expanded priority testing of key workers introduced in Ipswich is to be rolled out in the east and west of the county.
In October, Public Health Suffolk confirmed the government had
That featured a new priority testing service being formed, and will now be expanded to sites in east and west Suffolk to help key workers in the districts.
Richard Cracknell from Suffolk County Council said: The team are expanding our offer of our local priority testing service, offering testing site locations in both the east and the west of the county, which will be in addition to the site location in Copdock in Ipswich.