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How to play your part and help reduce the rise in cases in the borough: 

🌳 Meet up outside or if you're indoors open windows or doors if you have visitors
🔹Test twice a week with a symptom free test
🤒 Feeling unwell? Isolate immediately and get a standard (PCR) test
😷 Wear face coverings in crowded places
📲 Check in with the NHS COVID-19 app when you’re out
🖐️ Wash your hands regularly and for at least 20 seconds with soap
💉 Get vaccinated if you are 18+

Fresh air 🍃 Testing 🤒 Face coverings 😷 App 📲 Handwashing 🙌

🌞 School's out for summer! 

With the summer holidays finally here, it's still vital to keep up with regular testing. Please encourage your children to test twice a week with a symptom free test to help stop the spread of Covid-19. 

If your child feels unwell, isolate immediately and get a standard (PCR) test.

Following current guidance the need for isolation when advised still remains. This will not change until the 16 August 2021.

👉 Take a look at fun summer activities across the borough.

💚 Getting double jabbed is the most important thing we can do to stop the spread of the virus and protect our friends and loved ones.

🚌 All aboard to grab a jab in the borough!

Anyone aged 18 and over can get a jab from the COVID Vaccine Van or from a local clinic! No appointment is necessary and you don’t need to be registered with a GP. Pfizer vaccines will be offered at all locations.

Alternatively you can book an appointment.

Don’t delay! Here are some of the locations you can visit to get vaccinated: 

📍 Jhoots Pharmacy, Brierley Hill Health and Social Care centre, Venture Way, DY5 1RU
• Every day, 2pm to 10pm (Astra Zeneca & Pfizer)

📍 Wellington Road Community Centre, Dudley, DY1 1UB 
• Saturday 24 July, 9am to 12pm and 2pm to 7pm 
• Sunday 25 July, 9am to 1pm (Astra Zeneca & Pfizer) 

📍 St Peter's Church, 11 Hiplands Road, Halesowen, B62 0BH
• Saturday 24 July, 9am to 5pm (Astra Zeneca & Pfizer)

📍 New Road Methodist Church, New Road, Stourbridge, DY8 1PA
• Saturday 24 July, 9am to 6pm (Pfizer)

📍 Ghausia Mosque, 202 High Street, Lye, DY9 8JZ
• Saturday 24, Monday 26 and Tuesday 27, 9am to 6pm (Astra Zeneca & Pfizer)

📍 Halesowen Cultural Centre, Highfield Lane, B63 4SG
• Every Thursday until 2 September, 9am to 5pm (Pfizer)

👉 For details of all locations and where you can walk in and also book an appointment, visit the NHS Black Country and West Birmingham CCG website.

Vaccine and fertility 

🤰 💉 Still not had the COVID-19 vaccine and worried about it affecting your fertility?

🔹Take a look at a range of information from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. 

🔹Watch Dr Gayatri Amirthalingam discuss fertility and the vaccination. 

🔹Watch Emma, the Antenatal Clinical Manager from the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, talk about the false information some women have heard.

🔹Find out more trusted information from the NHS Black Country and West Birmingham CCG website.

💉🤔 Fear of needles?

Is a fear of needles stopping you from getting your jab? The vaccinators and staff at local vaccination centres have been trained to support people who suffer from this common phobia to overcome their fears briefly. 

Latest News

🛍️ Stay local to shop, visit and explore

If you’re planning on enjoying activities you’ve missed during the pandemic, stay local to shop, visit and explore what Dudley has to offer. Watch the video featuring businesses from across the borough.

👉 Find out more 

🏊‍♀️ Free swimming scheme!

Take the right test!

COVID-19 symptoms or feeling unwell? Isolate immediately and book a standard (PCR) test.

If you have no symptoms, twice weekly rapid COVID-19 tests help detect and contain asymptomatic cases.

Remember ❗️ It's important that you still get tested even after you have received both doses of the vaccine. 

Reminders:

• 📲 Download the NHS Covid-19 app and make sure to check in at gyms, hospitality and other venues to help stop the spread. 
• If someone in your household tests positive for Covid-19, or you are returning from abroad, it's important to self-isolate. Review the practical advice to help you stay at home safely.