A new Covid testing centre is to become operational in Carrick-on-Shannon in the coming days.
Signage has been erected at a new site just outside the town on the Castlecara Road in the last 48 hours.
The town previously had a Covid test centre in the town at the Irish Wheelchair Association car park and the HSE confirmed last October that it was hoping to re-establish a test centre in the county.
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People in Leitrim who required tests up to recently needed to present in Sligo, Castlerea or Longford for swabs.
Local Councillor Finola Armstrong McGuire says it's very important the centre will once again be operational in Leitrim:
