TUC calls for testing

WORKERS must have access to testing for coronavirus, including paid time off to be tested, unions are urging.

The TUC said there should be easily accessible testing sites as part of measures to ease the economic lockdown.

Priority should be given to those in at-risk and shielding groups, or who care for individuals in those groups, said the union organisation. The TUC said it recognised the case for testing and tracing, but added that “significant questions” remained about the proposed roll-out.