NHS, care workers and teachers to get priority for coronavirus tests – forcing others to wait
NHS staff, care workers and teachers will get priority status for coronavirus tests and others will be forced to wait, a health minister said this morning.
"In parallel we're addressing the supply issue by ramping up the number of those labs , the number of tests they can do, to make sure that as quickly as possible those who have symptoms can still get our tests in a timely fashion."Health Secretary Matt Hancock has admitted it could take weeks to fix the testing crisis, and so swabs will have to be rationed to ensure the people who need them most can get a hold of one.
In a letter to the PM, they said they are “frustrated” at the testing disaster, which is already seeing entire year groups booted out of class.
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