Haydock Park will serve as a drive-in coronavirus testing centre for self-isolating key National Health Service workers or their asymptomatic family members. The government has partnered with universities, research institutes and companies to open a network of labs and field testing sites across the UK, with 13 new testing centres opened to date.
Professor John Newton, National Coordinator for the UK Coronavirus Testing Strategy, said, “New testing sites such as this one are a key pillar of our five-pillar plan to scale up testing, and are critical in supporting NHS staff who are isolating at home to return safely to work if the test is negative. This is a brilliant example of industries and businesses turning their resources to creating and rolling out mass testing at scale, which will help to deliver on our aim of carrying out 100,000 tests a day in England by the end of the month.”
Dickon White, Regional Director of Jockey Club Racecourses North West, said, “Due to the coronavirus outbreak horse racing and other events have been suspended, so we're delighted to provide Haydock Park as a testing site for NHS staff who are doing such an amazing job for us all. Haydock Park is ideally located near to Manchester, Liverpool and other major North West towns, as well as having very good transport links, so hopefully an ideal and easy location for NHS staff to get to.”
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