A DRIVE to identify people who have coronavirus but show no symptoms and may be spreading it without knowing is about to start in the Kingdom. NHS Fife and Fife Council will roll out a new Covid-19 asymptomatic community testing programme, one of the first in Scotland, aimed at finding positive cases and breaking chains of transmission. There will be a focus on hotspot areas where case numbers remain high and in locations where there is a need for more testing. Carol Potter, the health board s chief executive, said: “This is an important expansion of testing which aims to help reduce Covid-19 rates in Fife, by identifying those who are positive cases but show no symptoms.
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It aims to identify positive Covid-19 cases and break chains of transmission.
Anyone with no symptoms of the virus, but who might be infectious, will be offered testing.
There will be a focus on communities where there is sustained transmission or a need for testing.
Pop-up testing sites will start to be rolled out in early February, with additional mobile testing also undertaken to respond to outbreaks.
Chief Executive of NHS Fife Carol Potter said: This is an important expansion of testing which aims to help reduce Covid-19 rates in Fife, by identifying those who are positive cases but show no symptoms.
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The work was invaluable, according to Fife Voluntary Action chief executive Kenny Murphy.
“We have been working with a number of partners in Fife to come up with an innovative way of learning from people about their experiences of dealing with the pandemic,” he said.
“We’ve seen a huge number of positive stories about communities, volunteers and people coming together, giving up their time to help others and making their communities stronger to deal with the pandemic crisis.
“We’re interested in how individuals and community groups working alongside public services found new solutions together.
“We’d like to understand how these connections formed and what impact it had.”