Harrogate’s Dragon Road coronavirus testing site is set to be replaced with mobile units after it closes on June 1.
The Dragon Road site is currently used to supply lateral flow tests as well as provide testing.
Dr Victoria Turner, public health consultant at North Yorkshire County Council, told a North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum press briefing today that people would still be able to get lateral flow tests from 25 pharmacies in the district.
The county council already runs mobile testing sites across North Yorkshire during the week in areas such as Ripon, Scarborough and Selby from 9am until 3pm. Harrogate will adopt a similar approach.
Dr Turner said:
“The current site will close at the beginning of June.
“The plan for this and for any other local test site that need to close is to replace the PCR testing element with mobile testing units, with the pharmacies and online portal providing a really good supply of lateral flow tests.”
Meanwhile, a further two covid cases have been confirmed in the Harrogate district, according to latest Public Health England figures.
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It takes the total number of infections since the start of the pandemic to 7,642.
The district’s seven-day covid rate is currently 24 infections per 100,000 people.
In North Yorkshire the average is 26 and the England rate is 24.
No further deaths from patients who tested positive for covid have been reported at Harrogate District Hospital, according to NHS England statistics.
The death toll at the hospital remains 179 since last March. Currently, four patients with covid are being treated at the hospital.
In the past week, North Yorkshire Police have issued seven fines for breaches of covid rules.
Four of those fixed penalty notices were handed out in Ripon for indoor gatherings.
