UK must go 'further, faster' to ramp up coronavirus testing capacity, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove says
His comments came amid mounting criticism about the inability of some health staff to get tests.
A fifth of nurses have been affected, the Royal College of Nursing said, while the British Medical Association said staff began being tested over the weekend, but only in low numbers. It comes as the biggest daily increase in the number of people who have died with coronavirus in the UK - 381 - was reported.But NHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis said there were still some"green shoots".
Earlier in the epidemic the number of cases was doubling every three days, but the rate of increase is lower than that now. These are largely just the cases diagnosed in hospital as people with mild illnesses in the community are not being tested.He also said there was still"headroom" in the NHS to treat patients despite the rising number of cases.
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