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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Aletha Adu

End of free Covid tests means £1,000 a year 'tax on caring' for care home relatives

Families visiting relatives in care homes face paying up to £1,200 a year on Covid tests, as the Government was blasted for putting a “tax on caring”.

Universal free lateral flow tests will end on Friday.

People aged 80 and over will still be able to get them, alongside those with compromised immune systems – if they have symptoms.

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