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<p>Protecting care home residents and staff has been one of our top priorities and
this includes increasing access to testing. We have now sent out over 12 million test
kits to care homes. We are continuing to prioritise Care Home Testing, where we are
issuing more than 120,000 tests a day to care homes across the country. We have met
our 7 September target of providing testing kits to all care homes for older people
and people with dementia who have registered for regular retesting kits. In addition,
all other care homes have been able to place orders for test kits from 31 August.
Since they were eligible to apply for regular repeat testing on the 31<sup>st</sup>
August, over 5000 specialist homes in England have applied for tests. Where an outbreak
has been identified, we test all staff and residents as a priority, with all those
who test negative being tested again 4-7 days later.</p>
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