Coronavirus: Carers

(asked on 1st June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether people caring for elderly relatives at home are entitled to be tested for covid-19; and whether they have priority for that testing.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 11th June 2020

All symptomatic social care staff, including volunteer carers and unpaid carers, can access testing through the essential worker portal at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/apply-coronavirus-test-essential-workers

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