Tier 3'er Do you have access to rapid mass testing in your Town/City?

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Just that really, im in Sheffield and id assumed as per Boris's press conference that all tier 3 area's would be getting rapid mass testing. So far there has been no mention of it. Just wondering if others have? I had planned on getting us all tested once the kids break up from school, prior to meeting family over Christmas.

Not yet, but hey, we're only the highest rate in the country at the moment ☹️

Swale in Kent I should have said

@OrangeBananaFish - I'm not sure that it's a great indicator of likelihood of future T3 vs T2. Warwickshire is right on the cusp on T2 (currently in T3), and cases have come down a lot even in the past couple of weeks. It's the most likely area to move down a tier if anywhere does. But Stratford is getting mass testing (current rate c40/100,000) - only about 6 places in the country have lower rates than them. Warwick also getting testing with rates hovering around the 100/100k mark. But other places in the county had/have much higher rates, and no mass testing there.

It seems such a waste of resources to test in somewhere like Stratford- cases are low and declining, small population, no mass influx/exodus of students, very rural area (no crowded cities), high conformity with social distancing/masks etc. They'd find a lot more cases doing mass testing elsewhere.

Not yet, but hey, we're only the highest rate in the country at the moment ☹️
Swale in Kent I should have said

@shufflestep
I heard that the army (from Brompton Barracks, Gillingham) were in Swale testing frontline workers, started last week.

Midlands here - I haven't heard of any in my authority but I understand they have them in Birmingham - not sure if the Birmingham ones are open to all though .