Coronavirus: Schoolchildren and parents could be among groups prioritised for COVID-19 tests, says cabinet minister

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Schoolchildren and their parents could be prioritised for coronavirus tests - after hospitals and care homes - as the government deals with 'real challenges' in the system, a cabinet minister has told Sky News

Mr Hancock on Tuesday told MPs that hospitals and care homes would be prioritised for COVID-19 tests.Key workers and families share their struggles to get COVID-19 tests

"It has to be the NHS first and then social care, and then I think what we need to do is have a cascading system where we know where our priority should be," he said. "For me, our priority should be children in school and their parents in order to make sure their lives are safe and also, importantly, they're not disrupted in the way that we're seeing."

Mr Buckland insisted the government had"accepted the scale of the challenge" over testing ahead of a possible second wave of coronavirus infections this winter, as he pointed to the number of test centres being increased from 400 to 500. "We're ramping up the test centres, we have increased laboratory capacity - new labs coming on stream so we can get that quick turnaround," he said.

 

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Kids have only just got back to school and I’ve already got a house full of illnesses, I love my kids but kids are walking virus spreaders

Remember this is all based on a flawed testing method that produces false positive results! Deaths that have been reclassified as covid regardless of the actual cause, and a 99.9% recovery rate! Plandemic Agenda21 ID2020 Operationlockstep Quantumtattoo Coronavirus Covid19

Why? We need level playing field. All lives matter. Look after old people 1st. People going tests no reason. It's like grabbing toilet rolls asda. Look after old people. Care homes. Even keir Starmer not a priority. His wife NHS or not wait in queue. NHS doing fk all

Erm....Teachers?

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