OTLEY’S MP is calling on the Government to provide care homes with adequate testing and protection equipment.
Alex Sobel (Lab, Leeds North West) says funding to do so is needed urgently to ensure that care homes in the Leeds area, and across the country, can protect their vulnerable residents during the coronavirus outbreak.
He said: “Germany is currently testing about 500,000 people per week, whereas we are only scoring around 70,000.
“This lag is causing front line staff to unnecessarily self-isolate and putting vulnerable people in hospitals and care homes unnecessarily at risk.”
Mr Sobel is continuing, meanwhile, to press the Government to ‘properly define who should and should not have staff still in workplaces’ during the COVID-19 lockdown - when most people are meant to be working from home.
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