Five tests

The Chancellor, Rish Sunak, yesterday: "What I tell you from my perspective is I’d say to all those people working in care homes up and down the country, whether it’s the people in them, whether it’s the people looking after them, you’ve absolutely not been forgotten, and there’s an enormous amount of focus, whether it’s at the NHS, whether it’s at Public Health England or elsewhere to make sure that care homes not just get the PPE they need, but they get the testing they need, they get the support they need in every aspect of the job they’re doing, which is extraordinary"

From "Admission and Care of Patients during COVID-19 Incident in a Care Home", published April 2, jointly issued by the Department of Health and Social Care, Public Health England, the Care Quality Commision and the NHS:

More than one symptomatic resident: Inform the Health Protection Team (HPT). They may arrange swabbing for up to 5 initial possible cases to confirm the existence of an outbreak. Testing all cases is not required as this would not change subsequent management of the outbreak.