Problems booking slots for rapid-result testing for people without Covid symptoms in Thanet and Swale
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Updated: 13:18, 31 December 2020
A Covid-19 test booking system recently launched for people without symptoms is running into problems with many unable to get through to secure a slot.
The Kent County Council-run service, rolled out in Thanet and Swale, is for rapid-result testing, aimed at people who may be unknowingly spreading the virus in the community.
Queues outside the Sheerness East Working Men s Club coronavirus testing station at Halfway on Sheppey
But many trying to book a slot through the kcc.healthit.org.uk website, shared by the authority yesterday, have been unable to get through, instead being met with a page error message.