It is claimed ministers rejected advice on testing care home residents, but was it even possible?
on the pandemic, the problem the UK faced at that early stage was that there were not enough Covid tests available.
A member of the public in the general community, even one who had symptoms, could simply not access a test. With limited testing available, the decision taken was that, initially, asymptomatic testing would only apply to those people admitted directly from hospital. They were deemed to carry the highest risk of being infected, since they were coming from a place where sick people with Covid where being cared for.
In the absence of available testing for people admitted to a care home from the community, isolation was also recommended. Eventually they too were tested, with testing capacity expanding rapidly in the weeks that followed.
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