The Shadow Health Minister, Angela Burns AM, has expressed concern over the length of time some Covid-19 (Coronavirus) test results take to come back – and said that she has been told some results have not been returned at all.
Speaking today (April 3), Mrs Burns said:
“Constituents – and these are healthcare employees, battling on the frontline against this pandemic – have told me that their results have taken a week or more to come back, and in at least one case, the results simply didn’t arrive.
“This puts the staff, their colleagues and patients, and households at risk.”
She added that some 1,000 tests a day are being performed at one testing site, with an additional 8,000 due to be carried out each day in the next weeks as three more testing centres come into service.
Mrs Burns said:
“Frontline medical and nursing staff need the reassurance that a test and the result – positive or negative – will give.
“I will be speaking further with the Health Minister to have the situation clarified, because although these are extraordinary circumstances, our NHS Wales staff must have all the means at their disposal to stay safe, and to be able to perform their roles for all our benefit.”