Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced an extension of theAt the Downing Street press conference today, he said adult care homes would now be included in the plan after claiming success in his target of getting staff and residents in elderly care settings a test by early June.
He said: ‘We’ve now sent over a million test kits to almost 9,000 elderly care homes and the care homes themselves asked that they have the flexibility to do the test when it works for them. ‘The good news is that the test results so far do not show a significant rise in the number of positive cases despite going through and testing all of the residents and staff. ‘Extending the scheme, he said: “We will now make sure that we do all of this in working age care homes as well.‘I can announce that from today all remaining adult care homes in England will be able to order the whole care home testing service for residents and staff.
He said it would give people ‘certainty about whether or not they are carrying the virus, and confidence that they’re doing the right thing both to protect themselves and others’.He said: ‘With all of the measures that we’ve put in place over the past few months, all of the billions of pounds extra that we’ve put in, it’s clear that the epidemic in care homes is coming under control.
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