NHS doctor 'gives up' children for three months to join coronavirus frontline fight
rose again today by another 563, taking the total number of fatalities so far to 2,392The number of people who have tested positive for coronavirus in Britain has also gone up from 25,150 to 29,474 as the pandemic continues to rampage across the country.
Up to 85 per cent of healthcare staff are "unnecessarily self-isolating" because of the government's failure to ramp up testing. Chris Hopson, the head of NHS Providers - which represents all NHS trusts in England, said that labs have the capacity to process around 100,000 tests a day.MOST READ IN NEWSSTEP UP!'Bully' dad who shot wife and two young daughters was 'nasty piece of work'SUBTLE SIGNS'Selfish' Brits in coronavirus lockdown use step ladder to get into park
In a Twitter thread, he revealed the results of the first tests carried out on NHS workers over the weekend found one in four doctors and nurses are currently off work over fears they may have the bug.
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