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UK to roll out twice-weekly testing for health service staff

FILE PHOTO: A poster reading "Universal Coronavirus Testing Now!" is seen on a bin in Liverpool, Britain, April 18, 2020. REUTERS/Phil Noble

Britain will start rolling out twice-a-week COVID-19 tests to all National Health Service (NHS) staff from Tuesday, health minister Matt Hancock said, in order to protect patients and health workers.

"(Rapid) tests allow us, from today, to begin rolling out twice-weekly testing for all NHS staff, which will help keep people safe when they go into hospital, and help keep my wonderful colleagues in the NHS safe too," Hancock told parliament.

Dido Harding, Executive Chair of NHS Test and Trace, makes her way, following the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Westminster, London, Britain November 10, 2020. REUTERS/John Sibley

(Reporting by Michael Holden and Sarah Young; Writing by Alistair Smout; Editing by Kate Holton)

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