Relatives of care home residents will be treated as key workers and get tested for Covid-19 weekly to enable safe visits as part of a new trial

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That is a big step in the right direction. I hope it works out well. Care home residents deserve so much better than their current situation.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8835071/Relatives-care-home-residents-treated-key-workers.html

Yet they’re still not routinely swabbing nhs frontline staff?!

Well that is madness too, especially as in the last couple of days it has been reported that 25% of those in hospitals with Covid actually caught it in the hospitals.

A good idea in theory but the care home my relative is in are struggling to get the staff test results back atm so I don't think the infrastructure is there at the moment. They test all staff weekly and at the start of the weekly testing the results would be back within 48hrs, now they are sometimes not back until after the next test has been taken.