Number of key workers getting Covid-19 overtakes positive tests in hospitals

Figures prompt renewed calls to ensure health and social workers have PPE needed

The number of key workers and members of their families who are testing positive for Covid-19 has overtaken the number of sick people testing positive in hospitals.

Figures showing that 2,067 key workers had tested positive at a new daily count prompted calls for a greater focus on how and why health and social workers were contracting coronavirus and for assurances that they were continuing to get the personal protective equipment (PPE) needed.