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Mar 2021
Harrogate covid testing site to be moved
Harrogate’s coronavirus testing centre is to be moved to a new location “within the next few months", it has been announced.
The current site in the Dragon Road car park, near Asda, opened in October and has the capacity to carry out about 300 swabs a day.
But because the car park is used by Harrogate Convention Centre, which is planning to reopen in June, the Serco-run site will have to be moved.
Cllr Michael Harrison, executive member for adult services and health integration at North Yorkshire County Council, told a meeting today that this would occur “in the next few months” and at a new location in the town to be announced at a later date.
He said:
Harrogate Convention Centre has been used as an NHS Nightingale hospital for almost a year. The Nightingale will close next month without treating a single covid patient.
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Paula Lorimer, the centre’s director, said last week the venue was planning for events to return from June 21 when all social distancing restrictions are due to end.
There are, however, questions over when the dismantling of the Nightingale will begin and how long it will take.
Ms Lorimer previously told the Local Democracy Reporting Service:
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