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Thousands of children in Essex will attend school for the first time this year on Monday. Schools are set to welcome back the majority of pupils as the first step out of lockdown gets underway. All primary students will be returning on Monday, while secondary schools will be undertaking a ‘staggered’ return to allow for mass testing of staff and children. Health and education bosses are urging all secondary students to get a Covid test before returning. Primary pupils do
NOT need to be tested. A number of special test sites are on offer to secondary students in Southend, while Essex County Council is urging them to use their nearest rapid testing centres before they get back to the classroom.
Here are places you can get a walk-in Covid test if you do not have symptoms ESSEX residents who do not have Covid symptoms are now being offered walk-in appointments for a rapid test in a town near them. Capacity for testing has increased with 13 new centres across Essex, with this new option bringing more flexibility for those who cannot work from home. Health officials in the county advise figures could go down even quicker if together we break the chain of transmission by getting tested regularly. Covid-safe test centres can be found in:
• Basildon - Towngate Theatre
• Brentwood - The Nightingale Centre
Here are places you can get a walk-in Covid test if you do not have symptoms ESSEX residents who do not have Covid symptoms are now being offered walk-in appointments for a rapid test in a town near them. Capacity for testing has increased with 13 new centres across Essex, with this new option bringing more flexibility for those who cannot work from home. Health officials in the county advise figures could go down even quicker if together we break the chain of transmission by getting tested regularly. Covid-safe test centres can be found in:
• Basildon - Towngate Theatre
• Brentwood - The Nightingale Centre