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Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock gave the 15 April 2020 daily press briefing on the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
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100,000 people will be sent self-testing kits to determine if they are currently infected.
Free visa extensions will be automatically granted to more crucial overseas health and care workers.
This will accelerate the development of new drugs for patients hospitalised with COVID-19, reducing the time taken to set up clinical studies for new therapies from months to weeks.
Anyone in England with coronavirus symptoms who either has to leave home to go to work or is aged 65 and over will now be able to get tested.
The families of health and care workers on the frontline in England will benefit from a new life assurance scheme during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
A drive-through coronavirus testing centre is to open at Perth College for key workers.
The storage time will be extended by 2 years so that those undergoing fertility treatment during the coronavirus outbreak have more time to continue treatment.
Mobile testing units, operated by the Armed Forces, will travel around the UK to increase access to coronavirus testing.
If effective, a national programme will deliver up to 10,000 units of plasma a week to the NHS to help treat coronavirus (COVID-19) patients.
New parents, unpaid carers, the homeless, young people and cancer patients could benefit from digital solutions as part of the TechForce19 challenge.
All essential workers in England and members of their households who are showing symptoms of coronavirus will now be able to get tested.
A new national adult social care recruitment campaign has been launched to boost the adult social care workforce in England as part of a wider plan to attract more staff into the sector.
20,000 households in England are being contacted to take part in the first wave of a major new government study to track coronavirus (COVID-19) in the general population.
Sites in Milton Keynes, Glasgow and Alderley Park in Cheshire are now live and are already testing thousands of patient samples for coronavirus (COVID-19) each day.
Key workers will soon be able to use new drive through coronavirus testing centre in Inverness as part of UK Government scheme.
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