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Welsh workers get access to free lateral flow tests

FSB Wales said the news will boost the confidence of customers, employers, and employees

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Free rapid Covid home testing kits will be available to workers who cannot work from home in Wales from this Friday.

Welsh Government said lateral flow tests will be available to be picked up from local Covid-19 test sites.

Officials said they were also looking at making other locations available to collect self-test kits, as well as posting them out to individual homes.

Ben Francis, FSB Wales Policy Chair, said: “As we begin to reopen the economy in Wales this news will boost the confidence of customers, employers, and employees, and will help to ensure that reopening is successful as we continue to move through the process.

“it will be important that these tests are easily accessible, and that proper communication is undertaken with employees and employers about how this scheme will work.

"Testing will be one part of the toolkit that will get Wales’ economy back up and running and this, alongside vaccination, will go some way to reinstalling confidence in workplaces and the economy.

“There will also need to be a longer-term conversation about the role that testing will play in reopening more workplaces when conditions allow, and this is something that FSB Wales will seek to work with the next Welsh Government on.”

It is hoped that improving the availability of lateral flow tests will make regular asymptomatic testing for coronavirus more convenient and accessible for people not covered under existing schemes at workplaces, childcare settings, schools, colleges and universities.