Coronavirus: Can the UK do 100,000 tests a day?
You need staff to take the swabs from patients' noses or throats, and staff in labs to process the tests.We're talking about diagnostic tests to find out if you have the virus here - ones that involve a nose or throat swab that has to be sent off to a lab.
As well as labs, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the government would now call on UK-based"pharmaceutical giants" GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca to make the reagents necessary to carry out the tests. Part of being able to scale up means"being willing to cede a little control over where, how and by whom the tests are conducted in order to increase capacity and decrease turnaround times", according to Prof Eleanor Riley, an immunologist at the University of Edinburgh.
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