London, May 16: All care home residents and staff in England, will be tested for coronavirus by June this year, UK Health Minister Matt Hancock said on Friday."All care home residents and staff in England -- both those with coronavirus symptoms and those without -- will be tested between now and early June," Matt Hancock was quoted as saying by CNN.
This development comes after more than twenty-five per cent of care home deaths were reported to be linked to novel coronavirus in England and Wales. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, between the period March 2 and May 1, registered up to the May 9, there were 45,899 deaths of care home residents (wherever the death occurred); of these 12,526 involved COVID-19, which is 27.3 per cent of all deaths of care home residents, according to country's Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). Home