Covid 19 Home Test Key Workers - Covid-19 Realtime Info
The uk government has established a network of covid testing facilities.
Covid 19 home test key workers. Key workers and their families have been able to order tests for coronavirus online from april 24. If youre ordering a home test kit on day 4 do so by 3pm. Priority for health and social care workers. By 10am the gover.
If you are a key worker or have to leave home to work and you have symptoms or a member of your household is symptomatic. Testing will allow anyone with symptoms to know if they have the virus. You can book a test for you or for your symptomatic household members at one of the testing sites in scotland or request a home testing kit. It is the second day in a row that requests for home testing kits and appointments for drive thru tests have had to be stopped because demand reached capacity in england.
Key workers trying to get a test for coronavirus are facing a longer wait after all of the slots were booked up within an hour of the government website reopening this morning. Its too late to order a home test kit. Many countries are focusing coronavirus testing on people who have covid 19 symptoms. Identify workers and places of work where covid 19 positive staff may have infected patients shielded individuals or vulnerable people.
Self referral portal for workers. On day 5 you need to go to a test site. Who can book for nhs home coronavirus testing and how long the results take tests were initially only for key workers and their families but that has now. Why countries should start weekly covid 19 testing for key workers.
G o to the self referral portal. Describe the process of scaling the availability of covid 19 tests for critical workers to ensure that testing capacity and resources can be managed. Coronavirus home tests for key workers have already run out this morning as 5000 kits were snapped up in two minutes before drive through slots were also fully booked up. How to get a covid 19 test.
Updated with expanded list of frontline workers eligible for coronavirus covid 19 testing in england and information on the different test options that are being developed. 15 april 2020 first.