COVID-19 testing unit offering free Lateral Flow Tests in Ellesmere Port, Blacon and Elton from 21st February

Free walk-in Lateral Flow Tests (LFTs) are available from Cheshire West and Chester Council’s own mobile pop-up COVID-19 testing units which will be located in Ellesmere Port, Blacon and Elton next week.

As of 21 February, pop-up testing units will be located:

• at Elton Community Centre, in School Lane, CH2 4PU each day from 9am until 3.30pm, Monday 21 February and Tuesday 22 February
• at St Theresa’s Parish Community Centre, Blacon Avenue, CH1 5BU each day from 9am until 3.30pm, Wednesday 23 February to Friday 25 February
• Opposite Asda, Mercer Walk, Ellesmere Port each day from 9am until 3.30pm, Monday 21 February to Friday 25 February

Fixed LFT testing facilities are also located at the Dingle Centre in Winsford and Stanney Oaks Leisure Centre in Ellesmere Port.

Attendance at any of these testing facilities do not require an appointment and all sites offer home testing kits to take away although supplies are limited.

The current approach to testing in the borough is not part of a surge testing programme but is in response to testing where COVID-19 rates are relatively high.

The pop-up testing units will provide a free LFT test to anyone who does not have any COVID-19 symptoms.  This type of test is good at picking up people who have no symptoms but are infected with COVID-19 and so may be unknowingly spreading the disease.

Government recommends that everyone tests for COVID-19 twice a week regardless of whether they have been vaccinated. Free home test kits are readily available at participating local pharmacies or online and are also available to collect at the pop-up testing units.

Anyone with COVID-19 symptoms should book a PCR test at:

www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test 

...or by calling 119.