The move came after England announced plans to ease testing requirements in an attempt to reduce the number of people being hospitalized.
As the COVID-19 variant Omicron continues to spread throughout the world, hospitals across the United Kingdom are urging staff members who recently retired to return to work.
The U.K. has begun easing COVID-19 testing requirements in England in an effort to reduce the number of people being admitted to hospitals with the virus. Starting on January 11, those who test positive for COVID-19 using a rapid lateral test will not have to confirm their findings with a PCR test if they are asymptomatic. If they do exhibit symptoms, a PCR test is encouraged. Other regions of the U.K. are not affected by the easing.
As the COVID-19 variant Omicron continues to spread throughout the world, hospitals across the United Kingdom are urging staff members who recently retired to return to work. Above, a pedestrian walks past a job advertisement for Nurses, ODP's and Healthcare Assistants, opposite St James's University Hospital in Leeds, northern England, on January 5, 2022, where a temporary"Nightingale" COVID-19 surge hub is to be set up.
But he cautioned that the change will mean authorities have less data about the spread of different variants as PCR swabs are used for genotyping and sequencing to identify different mutations. He said the change also will mean that daily updates on confirmed cases—which also come from PCR tests—"may need more careful interpretation."
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