Covid-19: Government pledges more tests for care homes

The Government has promised that all care home residents and social care staff with coronavirus symptoms will be tested as capacity is built up. Currently the first five symptomatic residents in a care home setting are tested to provide confirmation of whether if there is an outbreak. Yet when lab capacity increases, the government will expand testing to include all care home residents who develop symptoms as well as all patients discharged from hospital before going into care homes. They will also allow all social care staff who need a test to have access to one with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to