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Family members of health staff and other key workers to be given priority Coronavirus testing in Scotland

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The household members of health staff and other key workers across Scotland are to be given priority testing for coronavirus.

Family members with symptoms will be tested if a key worker is living in their household in a bid to allow frontline staff to return to work.Currently key workers in households with someone displaying symptoms are forced to self-isolate for 14 days even if they themselves are not showing symptoms.This could mean a nurse or doctor has to stay at home because their child is displaying a fever or a cough.Health Secretary Jeane Freeman is introducing priority testing for these people and said the move would have “the greatest impact in reducing working days lost".The move aims to allow key workers to return to work if

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