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Home Care Services: Coronavirus

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 90030, tabled on 15 September 2020

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the level of risk to disabled people of infection with covid-19 from domiciliary care workers who visit multiple homes.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answered on

4 December 2020

In July Public Health England published the results of a study of infection with COVID-19 among domiciliary care workers in England which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-prevalence-survey-domiciliary-care-staff-in-england

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