The national employee lateral flow testing programme for businesses has now gone live.
How to get your work force who are not able to work from home tested for Covid 19. Rapid asymptomatic testing can help identify people who are infected but do not have symptoms. This helps to prevent the spread of the virus in the community and your workplace.
Throughout Leicester and Leicestershire and Rutland there are a number of community rapid testing sites which are available to those who are not showing symptoms but cannot work from home at the moment (and live or work in Leicestershire).
Your employees must book a slot before turning up at a testing centre but the process is straightforward and can be accessed via the link below.
www.leicestershire.gov.uk/covidtest.
A new testing site is available at Market Harborough Leisure Centre however you and your employees can access any site across the County. The locations of the current sites are:
- Polish Club, Sandy Lane, Melton Mowbray
- Westfield Community Centre, Hinckley
- Blaby and District Social Centre
- Gorse Covert Community Centre, Loughborough
- Swannington Village Hall
- Wigston Fields Ward, Freer Centre
Alternatively the Government has recently widened the workplace rapid testing programme to cover work places with more than 50 employees. By registering for this programme you will be able to access resources to enable rapid testing to be undertaken directly at your place of work, rather than employees having to travel to one of the community testing sites.
To register your interest in this national programme just follow the link below
Again, you can register to order tests if:
- your business is registered in England
- you employ 50 or more people
- your employees cannot work from home
For more information and advice from the Leicestershire Director of Public Health on what businesses can do to help reduce the spread of infection visit our website
https://www.harborough.gov.uk/info/20021/council_information/325/information_for_businesses