Health
Coronavirus: Test demand ‘significantly outstripping’ capacity – BBC News
The number of under-17s seeking Covid-19 tests has doubled, the head of NHS Test and Trace tells MPs.
Media captionBaroness Harding: It is quite hard to give you an accurate figure on the level of demand for coronavirus tests
Demand for coronavirus testing is “significantly outstripping the capacity we have”, head of NHS Test and Trace Baroness Harding has told MPs.
She told the science and technology committee that the return to school meant test demand in England from under-17s had doubled.
She also acknowledged that results were also taking “slightly longer”.
But she said she was “very co…
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