Should we all have twice-weekly Covid tests?

IT’S all stick and no carrot. I will not countenance twice-weekly Covid tests unless it means we can return to normal life. We’ve suffered a year of privations, have been told vaccination is the way to freedom and now infections and deaths are falling, so what’s happened to the idea of living with the virus? Enough is enough.

TERRY COATES, Birmingham. THE country would be better served by ensuring everyone is vaccinated as quickly as possible, rather than twice-weekly Covid tests. My wife and I, who have both received the first vaccination, had lateral flow tests at a pharmacy.

Within an hour we were contacted by text that my wife’s result was positive and mine was negative. I was then contacted by Test & Trace and told to self-isolate, as I had been in contact with an infected person. My wife had a PCR Covid test the following day. Two days later, she was told she was negative. Incredibly, we were told we had to continue to self-isolate.

JEFF HARMAN, Redditch, Worcs. WITH half the population vaccinated and increasing every day, we do not need the burden and expense of vaccine passports and twice-weekly tests. Once these are brought in, all manner of places will say you must provide this information. There needs to be exemptions for those like my son, who has Asperger’s and can’t tolerate a Covid test.

KAREN GWYNN, Bromsgrove, Worcs. TEsTIng will not affect the level of infection, it will only show what we wouldn’t otherwise know. The key indicators to determine the lifting of restrictions are hospital numbers and the Covid death rate. MICHAEL LYNCHEHAUN,

Wallasey, Wirral. I HOPE the Covid tests we are to be sent are made in Britain. I was horrified that the one I had recently came from China. JILL HALES, Lowestoft, Suffolk.