Free Covid-19 lateral flow tests at mobile collection point
In our ongoing need to continue to take asymptomatic tests, we’re bringing these mobile testing units to an area near you.
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Infection rates rise by 50 per cent – play your part
Kirklees’ Covid-19 infection rate is continuing to rise, and whilst hospitalisations and deaths caused by the virus currently remain low, this can quickly change so we’re urging residents to get the vaccine and to take part in our increased testing offer.
Read moreVaccination centre on-site at Fox’s Biscuits
As part of the local vaccination roll-out, Kirklees Council and the NHS are setting-up a Covid-19 vaccination centre on-site at Fox’s Biscuits Factory to give all members of staff the opportunity to receive the first or second dose of the vaccine on 28 May 2021.
Read moreRace for Life Huddersfield is back for 2021
The safety of participants is always an absolute priority. The team at Cancer Research UK have been constantly monitoring the COVID-19 situation and now, following government guidance, they have ways to ensure events can operate safely.
Read moreKirklees surge testing targets schools
Kirklees Council will ramp up its surge testing activity tomorrow (Thursday 27 May) as it asks children and parents from four local schools to get PCR tested for Covid-19. All pupils, and everyone they live with (over the age of 11), will be asked to a take a PCR test if they go to the following local schools where we
Read moreA Year Like No Other: Volunteers stories recognised in online exhibition
In celebration of National Volunteers’ Week, 1-7 June, we’re supporting Third Sector Leaders (TSL) Kirklees to mark the role volunteers played locally in supporting their local communities during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read moreSurge testing to start in Kirklees
In a bid to prevent the spread of Covid-19, increased testing begins in Kirklees tomorrow, with extra support for areas of the borough with highest infection rates. With Kirklees’ infection rate one of the highest in the country, and cases of the Indian variant detected locally, a programme of increased testing in the borough’s areas with highest infection rates is
Read moreStatement by Kirklees Outbreak Control Board on travel restrictions
Kirklees’ Outbreak Control Board – a cross-party group comprising the leading councillors from Kirklees Council’s five main political groups and the borough’s three MPs – issued the following joint statement: “Kirklees continues to follow the roadmap out of restrictions alongside the rest of England. Given our high infection rates, we are urging residents and visitors to be cautious but there
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