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And new year period, though it is pleasing to see that they are looking into sorting another distributor, so i think we need to see the action and for it to be recognised that, at the end of the day, it is our health care teams on the front line who are bearing the brunt of the decisions made higher up. so, to confirm, are you or not short of lateral flow tests right now? we are not...we are still struggling to get them in, were only allowed to order one box into the pharmacy per day, which is a...

Though, good morning. —— hello. the government is looking to change the rules on covid tests in england — to ease staffing shortages by reducing self isolation periods. under the plans if you test positive on a lateral flow, but dont have symptoms, then you will no longer be asked to take a follow—up pcr test but you will still have to isolate. cabinet ministers will meet in the next half hour — the prime minister will ask them to back his decision not to impose any further covid restr...

Official news on that. but i know the teams are looking at testing and testing regimes. as i say, we have introduced so many lateral flow tests now that, you know, and they are very accurate, the lateral flow tests, you know, they are really accurate if people are infectious, so i guess they are looking at the regimes all the time in terms of what makes sense. but i dont have any, as i say, official news. but teams will announce it once they have come to their conclusions. we understand that the...

Home more than normal, reduce contact with people outside our own households and to limit the size of any indoor social gatherings that do take place so that they dont include people from any more than three households. also try to ventilate indoor spaces as much as possible and it remains our strong advice that lateral flow tests should be taken just before meeting up should be taken just before meeting up with anyone from another household. if that shows a positive result it is vital to immedi...

The online independent says that oil and gas firms were invited by the government to help write the rules on whether new drilling complies with the uks climate targets. and the sunday mirror claims its crisis time on albert square as danny dyer quits eastenders. lets begin, that. sian, do you want to because office hour with your paper, the sunday times? and of lateral flow tests?— lateral flow tests? yes, dramatic headline, lateral flow tests? yes, dramatic headline. as _ lateral flow tests? ...

Hours curtailed to try and stop incidental infections. in the press today, there is talk of potentially cutting the isolation period for staff that work in the nhs down from the seven days, before it was ten daysin the seven days, before it was ten days in england, now down to seven with lateral flow testing for a couple of days, but in other countries, in the united states for example, they have cut that down to five days and there are some calls to do the same thing in this country. at the mom...

Going to be delayed and that doesnt feel like a minor issue for those people, so we will see some additional challenges for people facing further delays and that adds to the ongoing issue of backlog of cases in the system. in a to the ongoing issue of backlog of cases in the system.— to the ongoing issue of backlog of cases in the system. in a move which could improve _ cases in the system. in a move which could improve the _ cases in the system. in a move which could improve the availability ...

Uk health and security agency, deem it appropriate that you can have two negative tests on consecutive days as we do now with day six and seven, thenit as we do now with day six and seven, then it is a good thing to keep under review. he then it is a good thing to keep under review.— then it is a good thing to keep under review. , ., , under review. he denied reports the government — under review. he denied reports the government was _ under review. he denied reports the government was plann...

In people in contact with children, and its now going to spread into older adults at much higher risk of severe disease. there are now calls for nhs workers to be prioritised for lateral flow tests to ease winter pressures. the government says the number of kits will triple by early next year after supply was recently described as patchy. some pharmacists for example didnt receive anything yesterday, so i have been asking around in terms of, like, if people have had their supply. some pharmacies...

Day because of covid—19. that is concerning because there are high numbers as well in sheffield, bath and like i say, this is what they are concerned about, and there were calls yesterday to give priority access to nhs staff a lateral flow tests, there has been some concern that they have to access the tests the same way as the general public and there are some calls for them to be given priority access because if they are self—isolating due to household contacts, they need to get back to wo...