It might be that the sky isn't falling in like the dying media have been suggesting. With the warmer
season coming along and spoiling the ratings-game, it seems people are leaving their TVs and going
outside.
But they're not going to Plague-Test stations.
season coming along and spoiling the ratings-game, it seems people are leaving their TVs and going
outside.
But they're not going to Plague-Test stations.
Quote:So where are all the sick people? Coronavirus testing centres stand deserted as Government urgesMore waffle in the Link:
more people with symptoms to apply for one under new 'Test and Trace' regime.
*Government has announced test and trace scheme will begin from May 28 without NHS coronavirus app
*Testing capacity is at 161,000 a day but latest numbers show that only 117,000 were carried out today
*Regional testing centres at Glasgow and Manchester Airports and in Weston-super-Mare stood empty today
Well, they have a nice day for it!
'Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced the introduction of the new Test and Trace programme to bring the
coronavirus under control, as concerns were raised over the Government's testing regime.
At the Downing Street briefing today, Mr Hancock said the new system would be up and running by 9am tomorrow
without the NHS' coronavirus app that records close contacts as the Government attempt to push ahead with its plan
to bring an end to the nationwide lockdown.
It was also revealed that coronavirus tests will be made available to everyone with symptoms in a bid to reach Boris
Johnson's target of 200,000 tests a day.
But it was a different story at several drive-in testing sites across the country, with airport and outlet store car parks
almost deserted in the middle of the day. Testing capacity now stands at 161,000 a day, but the latest numbers showed
that only 117,000 were carried out.
Photographs taken at Glasgow and Manchester Airports' testing centres showed only one or two cars at clinical tents
while soldiers were left waiting for vehicles to arrive at a car park in Weston-super-Mare. The lack of upscaling in tests
being carried out, despite pledges by Government ministers of 'ramping up', has led to criticism that more should be
done to encourage key workers and others to get tested.
Figures for yesterday showed that 84 per cent of all tests taken at drive-in centres were returned within 24 hours, and 95
per cent of all tests within 48 hours. Baroness Dido Harding, who has been appointed chair of the NHS Test and Trace
programme, said of the figures: 'I still don't think that's good enough. It's got to get better and better.'
The Government is pinning its hopes of ending the nationwide lockdown on the success of the test and trace scheme.
But it will go live tomorrow, earlier than the June 1 launch date which had been anticipated, without the NHSX coronavirus
app which digitally records close contacts and will massively speed up the contact tracing process...'
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