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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Remy Greasley

RARE PHOTOS: Wirral s first covid testing site to reopen as a library | Vintage Vibes

A library that was "at the heart" of the Wirral's fightback against the covid pandemic is set to return to its original use.

Heswall Library, on Telegraph Road, was the first indoor covid testing site to open in the Wirral. First opened in November 2020, it remained open throughout the pandemic until the government ended the requirement for testing on Friday, April 1 of this year, when it was closed.

The building has now been decommissioned as a testing centre and will resume its original purpose, as a community library, next week, on Tuesday, June 21. The council said that library staff have been working "flat out" to restore the space to its past life.

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