Coronavirus: Screening

(asked on 19th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) average and (b) maximum distance people are expected to travel for walk-in covid-19 testing.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 10th March 2021

The median distance travelled for a test is 1.9 miles. We have recently increased the radius search on the portal for local testing sites (LTS) from 10 miles to 25 miles, to help ensure that people who live in sparsely populated areas are able to book appointments at their local LTS without driving a further distance to a regional test site.

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