No regular tests for social care staff for five weeks at dozens of homes, relatives told

Care UK said most of its 114 care homes will have no weekly tests for staff after hundreds of thousands of kits were recalled by Randox

Staff at the UK’s largest independent social care provider can no longer be regularly tested for Covid-19 following the recall of kits, relatives have been told.

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