Changes to restrictions from Monday 29 March

We are encouraging parents and carers to help to keep schools open by allowing their children to have free rapid Covid tests. 

The tests, which will are supplied through schools, are for secondary school pupils who do not have any Covid symptoms - and they help us find any new cases, where people don't know they have the virus. These tests are not suitable for primary school children. 

Parents and carers can also have free rapid tests as long as they do not have any Covid symptoms. The tests can be collected to take home from 1.30pm-7pm at these sites: 

• Armitage / Moseley Road - Lower Carpark, Fallowfield  
• Ancoats Central Retail Park, Ancoats & Beswick   
• Belle Vue Speedway, Longsight   
• Brownley Road, Woodhouse Park  
• Birchall Way (Former Land Rover garage), Hulme  
• Denmark Road Building, Rusholme  
• Platt Fields Park, Fallowfield   
• Ukrainian Cultural Centre, Cheetham  

No appointment is needed. If parents or carers would rather order tests online they can do that from this link: Rapid lateral flow testing for households and bubbles of school pupils and staff - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)  

This film explains rapid testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebxhEOLfTN0

While we need to be cautious, we are really looking forward to restrictions gradually being lifted and our city starting to open up again.  

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