Testing for Covid-19 has been expanded in Scotland to key workers not directly employed in the health and social care sectors.
Drive-through testing sites at Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow airports, plus the University of the Highlands and Islands campus in Inverness, will now allow symptomatic key workers and their household members to know whether or not they have the virus.
The sites, run by private sector firms on behalf of the UK government, supplement existing testing at local NHS facilities that continue to give priority to health and social care workers.
The expansion of testing is “to ensure those critical to the sustained functioning of the economy and public services have access to testing that enables them to continue their vital work”.
