Jul 23, 2020
The plans come amid increasing concern that the NHS Test and Trace system is failing to reach adequate numbers of people who may be ill in places with the highest infection rates. The Government has pledged to publish regional data, but has not yet done so. Thee Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) argues that […]
Jul 21, 2020
When dealing with the question of why a test, trace and isolate system similar to South Korea was not modelled earlier this year, Prof Whitty told MPs: “I’m absolutely confident, chair, and let me be very clear about this, that we had no capacity to do it...
Jul 21, 2020
Hospitals failed to test staff for coronavirus because they feared having to send too many workers home, when almost half were infected at the peak of the pandemic, MPs have been told. Professor Sir John Bell, an immunologist and geneticist at the University of...
Jun 30, 2020
Nightingale hospitals will be converted into cancer testing centres in a bid to cope with a backlog in suspected cases, the head of the health service has said. Sir Simon Stevens said a “radically different” model of testing would be introduced in an attempt to deal...
May 31, 2020
Boris Johnson’s target to boost testing capacity to 200,000 has been met a day early, the government said, but senior Tories warned there is “no point” to it does not translate into actual tests. The Department of Health said capacity reached 205,634 on Saturday and...
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