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Ruth Mosalski

Welsh Government issues statement on future of free Covid testing in Wales

The Welsh Government has indicated it will be unable to provide free Covid testing to everyone in the wake of the UK government's decision not to continue to fund it.

On Monday, February 21, Boris Johnson said free testing would end from April 1. You can read the whole timetable of the easing of restrictions in England, which will also see self isolation rules end, here.

Mr Johnson told the Commons: "While the pandemic is not over, we have passed the peak of the Omicron wave, with cases falling, and hospitalisations in England now fewer than 10,000 and still falling, and so now we have the chance to complete that transition back towards normality, while maintaining the contingencies to respond to a resurgence or a new variant."

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