Town’s virus testing centre to close down

HARROGATE’S CORONAVIRUS testing centre will close this weekend in a sign that the emergency response to the pandemic is being scaled back.

The testing site at the Dragon Road car park will close on Sunday and be replaced with mobile units which will provide tests at the West Park car park several days a week.

Yesterday Matthew Robinson, head of resilience and emergencies at North Yorkshire County Council, said the move to mobile units was being done so that tests can be targeted to hotspot areas where they are needed the most.

He said: “The advantages of mobile testing sites is that we can flex and strengthen as we go. We will make sure that if Covid cases are increasing in a particular area we will continue to provide more frequent testing in that location.”