direct to your inboxFrontline staff at Stockport council are being offered rapid Covid tests as part of a targeted approach to bringing infection rates down.The lateral flow tests - which deliver a result in 30 minutes - will also be available to ‘partner organisations’ such as voluntary sector groups working with the public.Invitations will be sent to staff who are unable to work solely from home, especially those who have face-to-face contact with the over 70s.Around one in three people infected with Covid-19 have no symptoms, so could be spreading the disease without knowing it.Rapid testing helps to identify these cases, meaning those who have caught the virus but not fallen ill know to self-isolate.The community-based nature of many.
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