UK coronavirus live: NHS to get thousands of new ventilators 'next week', as death toll rises to 1,789

Department of Health says 143,186 people have been tested, with 25,150 testing positive; Home Office confirms NHS worker visas will be extended

A critical constraint on the ability to rapidly increase testing capacity is the availability of the chemical reagents that are necessary in the testing, Gove said. The health secretary and the prime minister are working with companies worldwide to ensure we get the material we need to increase tests of all kinds. Gove said we have just over 8,000 ventilators deployed in NHS hospitals now, but we need more.

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