Rapid coronavirus testing for people without symptoms will be available in Helensburgh from tomorrow.
The community testing initiative aims to drive down local Covid-19 rates and transmission by identifying positive cases more quickly, as people can spread the virus to others before symptoms appear.
Residents who don’t have any of the three Covid symptoms (a new continuous cough, temperature, loss or change in sense of taste or smell) are encouraged to get tested.
There is no need to book. Testing will be available Tuesday to Saturday, from 10am to 4pm in the Church Hall, Colquhoun Square.
This site is only for people without symptoms.
Anyone with Covid-19 symptoms should book a test in the usual way via nhsinform.scot or by calling 0300 303 2713.
Residents will be tested using lateral flow devices, which can give people their results in around 45 minutes. Any positive cases will then be confirmed by PCR test.
Latest figures from Public Health Scotland how that in the seven days up to March 20 there were seven new positive tests in Argyll and Bute, four of them in the Helensburgh North neighbourhood.
In Scotland as a whole there were 3,833 cases over the same period, 693 of them in Glasgow and 68 in West Dunbartonshire.
Of mainland local authorities, Scottish Borders had a lower rate of new cases.
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