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A new scheme for businesses offering workplace testing for staff through NHS Test and Trace has been launched across the UK.
Businesses that offer rapid workplace testing to staff, either through on-site testing or workplace test collection, will be able to download posters and stickers to demonstrate their offer for free, regular testing to their employees keeping people safe.
More than 122,000 businesses have signed up for free workplace testing already, using free government-supplied rapid test kits from NHS Test and Trace. All organisations that registered before 12 April and self-declared their involvement are eligible for the scheme.
Participating firms will be able to access digital assets including stickers and posters from 11 May, and can be accessed by participating firms online via the online ordering platform.
Health Minister Lord Bethell said: “Through this new scheme participating businesses can proudly display their contribution to our national recovery and their support to public health, while also reassuring staff and customers in the process. Around one in three people with coronavirus do not show any symptoms so every day rapid testing is helping us find cases of Covid-19 we wouldn’t otherwise know about, breaking chains of transmission and saving lives. Regaining our lost freedoms depends on all of us getting tested regularly. There are more ways for people to access free rapid tests than ever before, and I’m grateful to all the businesses for their contribution to this scheme and to our national recovery effort.”
Business Minister Paul Scully said: “Businesses across the UK have been hard at work ensuring they are reopening safely, in line with public health guidance, and more than 120,000 firms have gone even further by answering our call to sign up for free workplace testing. Today’s announcement means people can work and shop with the peace of mind that more rapid tests are being taken, more cases are being detected, and more lives are being saved.”
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