East Kilbride Councillor calls for Lanarkshire to be first in line for testing
dailyrecord.co.ukEast Kilbride councillor who is monitoring the success of the UK Government’s pilot testing scheme in Liverpool. South Lanarkshire Labour group leader, Councillor Joe Fagan, has written to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon calling for a wider testing regime in the region.In particular for more regular testing of key workers.The East Kilbride Central North councillor said: “It is shameful it took until October for the Scottish Government to announce routine testing of home care staff.“From the start of this crisis, government has been slow – slow on PPE, slow on care homes, slow on testing and slow to respond to the concerns of frontline workers dealing with the reality of this pandemic.“Labour councillors believe that government must now move.
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