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Government’s new daily testing rules for key workers ‘completely ineffective’
TUC argues that new scheme will only cover 1% of those it should
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by our Industrial reporter @TrinderMatt
THE Tory government’s new Covid-19 daily testing rules for key workers in England will be “completely ineffective” and cover just a tiny fraction of Britain’s workforce, trade unions have warned.
GMB slammed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s pledge to regularly test 100,000 “critical workers” from today as “gesture politics of the worst kind.”
The TUC argues that, by the government’s own reckoning, more than 10 million people — about a third of the total workforce — are essential workers, meaning the new scheme will only cover 1 per cent of those it should.
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