Health
‘Utter shambles’: GPs and medics decry NHS test-and-trace system – The Guardian
England’s medical personnel forced to self-isolate due to logistic problems besetting Covid-19 tests
Doctors have criticised the coronavirus testing system as an utter shambles after it emerged that some are being told to undertake round trips of up to 522 miles to get swabbed.
Hospital medics and GPs have described how delays of up to four days to get a test and five days to receive the result forces them to isolate and means they cannot work normally in the NHS.
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