Coronavirus: Private clinic defends charging £375 for test
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Coronavirus: Private clinic defends charging £375 for test

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} A private health clinic that sold coronavirus home-testing kits online has defended its decision to charge three times the normal price. “The test is a panel test which will differentiate between the lethal Covid-19 virus and 9 other non lethal viruses with the same symptoms.” The clinic is now offering refunds to any customers who have not yet received their testing kits, after the suppliers ran out of stock and stopped taking new orders until 30 March. “As a consequence, the only course of action we can take is to refund everyone whose kits have not yet been dispatched.” The clinic was accused of “profiteering behaviour” by shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth, who called on the government to “stamp out this exploitative behaviour”.

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