Bolton NHS Trust plea as 100 turn up at A&E asking for coronavirus tests
More than 100 people turned up at an A&E asking for Covid-19 tests, sparking a plea from a hospital trust for anyone who is not seriously ill to stay away.
The government said NHS Test and Trace was "working" but was also dealing with people without symptoms taking tests. "This failure of the test-and-trace system is placing huge pressure on the NHS and social care," she said."We've now got 30 people who are Covid-positive and we've got five people in our high-dependency unit so this virus is not going away.
"We have our own community testing sites and were doing about 200 tests a day - [on Tuesday] we did 1,639 tests. We can't go on like this."
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