Mobile coronavirus testing units have been scheduled to be at locations across Sefton through September.

If you have the COVID-19 symptoms of a high temperature, persistent cough or loss of taste or smell  – however mild – you should get a test.

Tests at mobile centres are available for anyone but they need to have made an appointment first at www.nhs.uk/coronavirus or by calling 119.

Mobile Testing Unit (MTU) dates and locations for the remainder September are:

• Wed 16 – Litherland
• Thur 17 – Reserve (No scheduled MTU in Sefton)*
• Fri 18 – Reserve (No scheduled MTU in Sefton)*
• Sat 19 – Reserve (No scheduled MTU in Sefton)*
• Sun 20 – Southport
• Mon 21 – Litherland
• Tue 22 – Crosby
• Wed 23 – Crosby
• Thur 24 – Reserve (No scheduled MTU in Sefton)*
• Fri 25 – Reserve (No scheduled MTU in Sefton)*
• Sat 26 – Southport
• Sun 27 – Southport
• Mon 28 – Crosby
• Tue 29 – Crosby
• Wed 30 – Crosby

*One of the Mobile Testing Unit teams is a reserve team,  and may deployed to other Merseyside locations on these days.

Walk-through test centres, opposite Bootle Town Hall and at Southport Town Hall, are open from 8am to 8pm. You need an appointment from www.nhs.uk/coronavirus  or by calling 119 or the Council’s Contact Centre on 0345 140 0845.

The September dates for Mobile Testing Units, which are supported by Sefton Council, NHS Southport and Formby CCG and NHS South Sefton CCG, follows on from a timetable that saw units deployed across Sefton Borough nearly every day in July and August.