RAPID COVID TESTS.
Households with primary school, secondary school and college age children, including childcare and support bubbles can again collect two free rapid COVID-19 tests per person in East Leake again on Friday this week, April 16 after a similar exercise last week.
A community collect station will be in place at Gotham Road car park in the village from 9am to 3pm again, as it was last Friday.
Further possible dates are being assessed and will be publicised once confirmed.
Testing will continue to be a vital part of the response to COVID-19, supporting the roadmap set out by the Prime Minister and although cases in Rushcliffe and nationally are declining, everyone needs to play their part to keep the virus under control while keeping children and young people in school.
As set out in the roadmap, secondary school and college students are moving to this twice-weekly home testing routine but the tests are free to all families and households with primary, secondary school and college aged children and young people, including childcare and support bubbles, to help find more Covid-19 cases and break chains of transmission.
With about a third of individuals with coronavirus showing no symptoms and potentially spreading it without knowing, targeted regular testing will mean more positive cases within households are found and prevented from entering schools and colleges, helping to keep educational settings safe.
Rapid testing detects cases quickly –in under 30 minutes –meaning positive cases can isolate immediately. This can be the difference between children being able to stay in school, or a class being sent home due to an outbreak. It could also be the difference between a workplace having to close for a period or being able to stay open and running.
Rapid Testing is also available via:
• through your employer if they offer testing to employees
• at a local community
testing site – Cotgrave Hub on Wednesdays and Saturdays or a full list County wide is available at https://bit. ly/2ORuo3j
• by ordering a home test kit
online – https://www.gov.uk/ order-coronavirus-rapidlateral
EASTER WORSHIP. Easter, following in the pattern that Christmas had been as well some four months ago, was different for worshippers at East Leake St Mary’s parish church because of the continuing but hopefully reducing problems brought about by Covid-19,
Digital Worship for Easter Week following the usual pattern of services, and continued with Easter Morning Worship Holy Communion in the evening. at 6pm. The services were available on the church website, Facebook and YouTube channels.
On the subject of Gathered Worship St Mary’s continue to run our their socially distanced midweek communion service. With for Easter Week they being on Wednesday April 7 and Thursday April 8. To help the church us manage numbers, would be service attendees were asked to ring to ‘book in’ or use the form on the website.
St Mary’s is open for private prayer most days, though the church will be shut on Wednesdays, after communion, to allow for cleaning between services.
The Rector, the Rev Tim, said they had looked forward to welcoming Bishop Paul to lead the afternoon Service at St Mary’s on Good Friday. On Easter Day there were be two Easter morning communion services, with time in between for cleaning.
The Rector said although they were unable to have congregational singing both services did have live music, led on the organ for the first one and the piano at the second.
Their were also be communion services at Costock, Rempstone, West Leake, and Stanford on Soar . There were Easter events for families and on Easter Sunday afternoon there was the second of the Jump into Easter videos and ‘Bounce with Ben’ activity session for all ages. All were streamed on the church Facebook page and website. There was also an Easter trail happening all week in the grounds of St Mary’s church - each point on the trail has a QR code linking to a special Easter video - so everyone was reminded to take a mobile phone to scan the link.