Covid-19: Olympic champion’s coronavirus comeback and more tests for ‘pinged’ workers
Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. …
More critical workers will be able to take daily tests rather than isolate when identified as close contacts of people who have Covid, in a bid to prevent staff shortages. With hundreds of thousands of people a week receiving alerts, the government says 1,200 extra rapid testing sites will be established for sectors including prisons, waste management and the armed forces. That’s on top of 800 sites being set up for workers such as police, firefighters and supermarket depot staff.