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For a home—care company in norfolk. like many providers supporting older and disabled people, they went into this latest wave of covid with staff shortages. it's katie, i'vejust come to do your pcr. difficulty getting enough tests, and slow pcr results are adding to the company's problems. so we've got our last five boxes of lateral flow tests — are you able to access any more? i'm not able to get any at all from the council. even though the demand for care is huge, they're having to turn away new clients. we've closed our books and we've got about 70, 75 clients when we could be running a...

The government says 8 million lateral flow tests will be available by tomorrow. but mark burdon, who runs six pharmacies in north—east england, hasn't seen any extra supply. i tried ordering an additional supply this afternoon and that order was rejected. unfortunately, we're going to have to start to turn people away once the current supplies are exhausted. it's very frustrating when you've got people in front of you and you're unable to give them the tests that they're asking for. and lateral flow tests become even more important from tomorrow in northern ireland and wales. as in england, ...

Well, we thought we'd come to the local pharmacy to see if they have any lateral flow test, but you don't need to go in to see that they are out of stock. so let's 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 that he's 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 along with her husband and two children. she's hoping to get back to w...

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Deal with staff shortages caused by workers isolating due to covid. that number doubled in london in the week before christmas. i do understand the argument, but as i say, we believe it is the right thing to do at present, to stick with the self—isolation period as it currently is, so that is seven days, and as i say, we've onlyjust made the change to bring it down to ten, so we want to make sure that that is working as we would expect it to be. but that brings us back to lateral flow tests. for the system to work, there has to be enough of them to go around. labour says the government needs...