NHS leaders raise concerns over test and trace as Covid cases rise

Two new saliva sampling pilot schemes announced in move to ‘next generation’ of testing

Ministers have set out plans to ramp up testing for coronavirus, as NHS leaders expressed deep concern about problems in the test-and-trace system.

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