It comes after Britain saw more than 500 daily deaths for a second consecutive day. FMTNews Covid19 Britain
NHS staff line up in their cars to take a coronavirus test at a drive through centre in north London on Wednesday.
In an online video message posted on Wednesday evening, Johnson, whose initial light-touch approach to the outbreak came under scrutiny, said testing was the “way through” the crisis. The minister, who was giving his first news conference since leaving isolation after testing positive himself, added that the government was “determined” to scale up tests across the board in the coming weeks.
Testing for the general public has also been condemned as not being widespread enough and is currently largely limited to hospital admissions of the most serious Covid-19 patients.
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