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On the virus. lateral flow tests are absolutely essential to keeping us protected and to keep our economy open. there is another potential threat to staffing levels on the horizon. all health care workers in england with direct contact with patients need to have had two covid jabs by the end of march or they risk losing theirjobs. one nhs boss acknowledges that could affect around 10% of his workforce. we have approximately 1a,000 staff at kings... so you could lose more than 1,000 staff? its an...

Available, supply issues aside, for all of us to use regularly. he has said we should transition as he put it from a period of pandemic to endemic where coronavirus is something we would deal with cyclically on our yearly basis. lets speak to thorrun govind, chair of the royal pharmaceutical society in england. what would you think of the notion of lateral flow tests at sometime in the future not being free? i of lateral flow tests at sometime in the future not being free?- the future not being ...

Have two negative tests on consecutive days, as we do now with day six and seven, then its a good thing to keep under review. some experts agree a five—day isolation period could be safely introduced. youre generally infectious for about two days before you develop symptoms to about three, maybe four days afterwards, so limiting the cut—off point to five days wouldnt really substantially increased risk. so you think the advantages outweigh any possible risks? that would have considerable ben...

Hello, welcome to bbc news — im victoria derbyshire and these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. borisjohnson is currently meeting his top team and theyre expected not to impose any further covid restrictions in england — thats despite the current high levels of infection in the country. it comes as the health service is under increasing strain from covid — more trusts in england declare critical incidents — and 17 hospitals in greater manchester put some non urgent...

Im intrigued in the story, because one of the bits of the good news, the predeparture tests have been scrapped and it looks like day two tests will be replaced by some lateral flow tests which are honestly a lot cheaper and dont require any kind of booking and all the rest of it, but the telegraph has a story saying that some kids are actually going to be grounded, as it puts it, because the vaccine passport rules mean that unless you have got the app, which most kids dont have on their phone, u...

Pressure? specifically by the backbench tressure? specifically by the backbench pressure?— specifically by the backbench tressure? , , �* ., pressure? the fact is there isnt a alan. a pressure? the fact is there isnt a plan- a senior— pressure? the fact is there isnt a plan. a senior government i pressure? the fact is there isnt a j plan. a senior government source said to me this morning they are not working on a plan for living with covid long term yet. that does not mean there is not on...

For any time soon. lateral flow tests are absolutely essential to keeping us protected and to keep our economy open. its notjust isolation rules that could hit hospital staffing. by february the 3rd all nhs staff in england with direct contact with patients need to have had their first vaccine jab or risk losing theirjobs by the end of march. one nhs boss acknowledges that could affect around 10% of his workforce. we have approximately 14,000 staff... you could lose more than 1,000? in an extrem...

To the local pharmacy to see if they have any lateral flow test, but you dont need to go into see that they are out of stock. so lets try this one. staff suggested we go down the road to another pharmacy. well, i got lucky. the pharmacist here does have a box of tests. he says, in fact, he gets a delivery every day, but as soon as people find out hes got them they can run out in half—an—hour, just because of the sheer size of the demand for them. eve burke, a teacher in burcher, has covid al...

The covid operations are meeting and there are discussions about various things but one of those discussions is about changing guidance when it comes to testing. at the moment the rules are if you have symptoms you go and get a pcr test and then isolate if it is positive. lots of people are doing lateral flow tests when they dont have symptoms. the guidance for that is if you get a little red line for a positive lateral flow test then you should get that backed up with a confirmatory pcr test an...

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