Dinnington's Covid testing site will close today

Rotherham Council says another location in the town will be active soon after testing ended on Tuesday (24).

The Department for Health and Social Care ran the facility from November but Dinnington Resource Centre is returning to full strength and needed its car park back.

RMBC wants another centre in Dinnington and says work on opening a new one will be “accelerated”.

Nathan Atkinson, RMBC assistant director for strategic commissioning, said: “We are grateful to the trustees at the resource centre for their agreement to allow DHSC use of their land for the testing site since November 2020 and fully support and understand their need to return the car park to its proper use.

“We have provisionally identified an alternative site nearby in Dinnington, which we will aim to secure and handover to the DHSC as soon as possible.

“There will inevitably be a short period when residents will be advised to attend other nearby sites in Rotherham, Maltby or Worksop or book a home test.”

Visit www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test or call 119 for PCR tests.