The mobile Covid-19 screening sites in front of the Parys Town Hall and Container Park in Breë Street are up and running for today as from 11:00.

The Container Park site which has already screened 40 people by now will be moving as of 14:00 today to the Sasol garage in Breë Street  where more people can be voluntarily screened till 15:00 today.

Nobody had to be referred for testing as the Container Park site.

At the site in front of the town hall 59 people have been screened from 11:00 till 14:00 with only 2 referrals for testing.

Personnel of Parys Hospital are running both sites.

Remember that screening is voluntarily and is only a questionnaire filled in with the help of a professional health worker. If according to the questionnaire it is find that you might be at risk, you could be referred for testing.

Screening is done all over the country and is an important part of the scientific study to see where SA is at this point of time with regard to bending the curve in the spread of the virus.