{"id":621000,"date":"2022-06-28T10:42:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T10:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=621000"},"modified":"2022-06-28T10:42:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T10:42:41","slug":"covid-19-test-free-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/covid-19-test-free-in-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 Test Free in Wales!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Covid-19 was known as the hardest pandemic to get over, however nowadays, the virus has decreased in cases, a vaccine has been created and some drugs are in development. Tests for the most part have been taken away from people in England and now they have to buy them\u2026 Wales however has gone for a different approach!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wales is still making Covid-19 tests free after a massive amount of cases stopped and more than likely there is 1 in 50 people having Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Free tests started when Covid-19 started to increase in cases in the UK, with many people being able to get more than 1 box a week and managed to get knowledge about the virus and how it managed to spread.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_621008\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-621008\" class=\"wp-image-621008 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/shutterstock_1742752964.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/shutterstock_1742752964.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/shutterstock_1742752964-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/shutterstock_1742752964-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-621008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: <a class=\"jss403 jss73 jss75 jss74\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/Ascannio\">Ascannio<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wales has extended the free Covid-19 tests for another month to ensure the virus is on its way out and nearly done. The UK recently has seen a massive increase in cases, due to this&#8230; Wales may have changed the rules slightly!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ministers here are quite clear that they prefer to remove protections and to make easements to the situation when we&#8217;re on the downward turn, So when we&#8217;re on a rise of community infection when rates are actually going up, people are coming to more serious harm, that&#8217;s the time to delay those changes. And that&#8217;s really why we have decided in Wales to continue with the testing for people who are symptomatic with coronavirus symptoms for a further month,&#8221; said Dr. Sir Frank Atherton!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Banner and Image Credit: <a class=\"jss1726 jss73 jss75 jss74\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/digiart\">Andrii Vodolazhskyi<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 was known as the hardest pandemic to get over, however nowadays, the virus has decreased in cases, a vaccine has been created and some drugs are in development. Tests for the most part have been taken away from people in England and now they have to buy them\u2026 Wales however has gone for a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":621009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1844,1853,1866,2071],"class_list":["post-621000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-news","tag-covid-19-update","tag-latest-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621027,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621000\/revisions\/621027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}