A mass COVID testing centre at Diss Leisure Centre. Picture: Danielle Booden
- Credit: Danielle Booden
More than 6,000 people have taken part in surge testing in South Norfolk, in a bid to detect the new South African variant of Covid-19.
Around 6,100 people living and working in the parishes of Diss and Roydon have now participated in targeted surge testing.
Norfolk Public Health and South Norfolk Council have applauded the efforts of local people and remain keen to remind anyone who has collected a home test kit since Friday to complete their test and return it as soon as possible.
They urged anyone who had not yet booked a test to do so this week.
Diss and Roydon testing rollout is to be scaled back
| Updated: 09:58, 23 February 2021
The surge testing programme in Diss and Roydon will begin to be scaled back this week, Councillor Graham Minshull announced this morning.
As from 7pm this evening the test centre at Diss Youth and Community Centre will close and be used as a roaming pop up centre, visiting different parts of the town.
Updates on where the centre will be shall be announced on South Norfolk District Council s Facebook page.
The remaining test centres at Roydon Community Centre and Diss Leisure Centre will remain open, however they now will close at 5pm every evening, instead of 7pm.
After a successful start to a 14-day surge testing programme in Diss and Roydon, which started on Friday, February 19, Norfolk County Council have praised the efforts of local residents.
A surge COVID testing centre at Diss Leisure Centre
- Credit: Danielle Booden
Mass testing is under way in south Norfolk as health officials bid to contain the spread the South African coronavirus variant.
Hundreds attended mobile units in Diss and Roydon from Friday morning, the very first time surge testing has been carried out in the county.
A mass COVID testing centre at Roydon Village Hall
- Credit: Danielle Booden
Public health teams are keen for everybody aged 16 or over in the area to get tested after the strain was identified in a handful of positive cases earlier this week.