Coronavirus test website slots unavailable within hour of site reopening
Prof Stephen Powis, medical director of NHS England, urged key workers showing Covid-19 symptoms to book a test on the government website.
He told BBC Breakfast there was now capacity for more than 50,000 daily tests - and that reaching 100,000 a day by Thursday remained"the aim". "The NHS has committed to capacity of 25,000 within NHS laboratories and we are on trajectory for that capacity to be in place," he said. Prof Powis added the test people can book online is a swab test to determine whether people currently have the virus - rather than whether they have had it in the past.
"I would urge people who fit in that criteria, key workers, to go back onto the website as more appointments become available," he said.
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