from @ChrisCEOHopson on Newsnight last night - not world class test/trace system ready today, even as some shd have started...
- taking care homes 3-5 days to get results, needs to be 24hrs.
- Local health teams only told 5 days ago, will take 5 weeks
- taking care homes 3-5 days to get results, needs to be 24hrs.
- Local health teams only told 5 days ago, will take 5 weeks
Which may go some way to explain comments such as this from the Director of Public Health in Blackburn...
Perhaps you’d have expected 100% rapid testing for all care homes, in place before adding this additional new system - new figures on reported care home outbreaks will be published this afternoon - hopefully down below 100 last week...
From the guidance for those people contacted by the tracers and told to self isolate... you will be entitled to Statutory Sick Pay but “can ask” for it to be holiday (ie full pay but at expense of entitlement) instead... 
