We achieved the target of 10,000 tests last Saturday (the 13th!), but we didn’t want to say anything, as to not loose momentum!
In total more than 12,000 people were tested in just under a fortnight after the Operational Eagle programme started on February 5. Of those, 3,700 were carried out at the mobile test centres in Longbridge and on the car park of the Empire Cinema, 3,600 people were tested door-to-door, 2,800 via the drop and collect system and 2,000 through community collection.
Cllr Paulette Hamilton, cabinet member for health and social care, echoed my thanks saying. “The way Frankley & Northfield have come together has been fantastic. This should be used as a blueprint for how this situation should be approached if it arises anywhere else.
Dr Varney said: “When we approached this, I was hoping for 30 per cent uptake but it has been well over 50 per cent. It was testament to people’s responses that testing was brought to an end this week.”
I concluded this by saying: “No one party, can take all the credit for this, not me, not the government, the council, other than the people of Frankley themselves, for stepping up, and doing their duty.”
I cannot tell you, how proud I am, to be your councillor, and represent such an amazing community! I am immensely proud of everyone for the way they have responded and I want to say a huge thank you and congratulations to people for stepping up to the plate.
Note – It’s my Birthday today too, so what an amazing way to celebrate, and note, I will always stand up for you, when others have tired to put us down! We smashed this! Well done, and thank you!!
Cllr Simon Morrall – Frankley Forward.
City Councillor for Frankley Great Park Ward.
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