UK Taxi and Bus drivers to be given Coronavirus tests even if they show no symptoms - Evening Standard

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Taxi and bus drivers will be given tests for coronavirus even if they do not show symptoms, Boris Johnson announced this afternoon in a move to reduce the death toll among vulnerable workers.

The move comes after 29 of the capital’s bus drivers died from Covid-19 and cabbies were also identified as being among those most at risk of infection.

The Prime Minister told MPs he was extending “targeted testing” to all people in jobs that put them at extra expose from mingling frequently with members of the public, including taxi drivers.

Until now, such workers were only given a test for the virus if they had [...]

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