Asylum seekers and detainees unable to get coronavirus tests despite living in facilities with confirmed cases

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Asylum seekers and detainees unable to get coronavirus tests despite living in facilities with confirmed cases
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Private firms running removal centres forced to raise alarm

John Taylor, chief operating officer of Mears Group, which is contracted by the Home Office to run Urban House, an initial accommodation centre in Wakefield, as well as 7,374 properties asylum seekers are transferred to once they are granted asylum support, said testing as not readily available for any asylum seekers in its accommodation.

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