Low Testing Take Up in Deprived Areas

[FlyMyPrettiesFly]

Just reading that the most deprived areas of England have a very low take-up of covid testing. Campaigners say this is because of the significant cost of having to self-isolate; the risks are too great for low income families.

The government are very keen to blame individuals for the virus’ spread. However, they could clearly have avoided some of it by providing proper financial support for those who test positive and can’t attend work.

Doesn’t surprise me one bit. I work in a deprived school in the West Midlands, currently over 50 percent of kids in and apparently no positive cases since September.

Yeah right.

I,m not suprised. if you would have to survive on 75 quid ssp a week for 2 weeks every time you had been a contact then the obvious thing to do is reduce the chances test and trace can contact you. so dont have the app and dont admit if a family member has been positive.
On min wage youre unlikely to have a huge buffer of savings to get you through 2 weeks of no pay and it could literally take you months to recover financially from the hit of ssp for 2 weeks