Covid-19 Testing Kits for Care Homes 2020-06-23
2020-06-23
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Discusses progress on delivering test kits for care home staff and residents.
What progress has been made by the Department in delivering covid-19 testing kits to care homes? Recently, a care home in my constituency had an outbreak and was not eligible for further testing after initial whole-home tests were conducted. Is this correct?
There is a rolling programme to test for covid-19 in care homes. When a new outbreak occurs, the local health protection team should be contacted for initial testing of symptomatic residents. The national testing team can then prioritise further whole-home testing upon referral by the local health protection team or director of public health.
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