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<p>During the COVID-19 pandemic, services have been working hard to support parents
to care for their babies as much as possible while still ensuring that services are
safe.</p><p>Testing is a key part of the United Kingdom’s response to COVID-19, and,
following the publication of the Government’s Testing Strategy we have rapidly expanded
our capacity.</p><p>We are now providing testing to anyone with symptoms (England
and Northern Ireland; over fives in Wales and Scotland) Current clinical advice is
that asymptomatic testing can be conducted where clinically appropriate, for outbreak
investigation and infection control. These decisions are made by local decision makers
based on patient and procedural risk.</p>
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