A staggering 98 per cent of people taking home coronavirus tests do not get their result within 24 hours, data showed today as Boris Johnson’s target of turning all tests around within a day slips further out of reach. The home test kits are the most used testing route for the public but also the slowest, … Read more
A staggering 98 per cent of people taking home coronavirus tests do not get their result within 24 hours, data showed today as Boris Johnson’s target of turning all tests around within a day slips further out of reach. The home test kits are the most used testing route for the public but also the slowest, … Read more
Drastic travel measures to control the coronavirus probably do work, a scientific review has concluded, but the evidence is still lacking. Academics looked over the findings of 36 studies which assessed whether airport screening, closing borders and quarantining travellers have any real impact on reducing cases. It found the most beneficial was shutting borders to … Read more
Testing fiasco threatens schools chaos: Teachers call for coronavirus screening as thousands of pupils across the country are sent home from lessons… but the demand is set to be low on ministers’ ‘priority list’ Almost every school in the country is now suffering virus-related problems, unions warn Teachers fear a ‘lockdown by default’ as thousands … Read more
It is an image that captures the farce of Britain’s Covid-19 testing shambles. This testing centre in Peterborough lies almost empty as desperate families across the country are unable to get checked so they can return to work and their children can get back to school. Some parents in the city have even been told … Read more
PAUL THOMAS on… the coronavirus testing fiasco By Paul Thomas For The Daily Mail Published: 02:56 BST, 17 September 2020 | Updated: 03:04 BST, 17 September 2020 Advertisement To order a print of this Paul Thomas cartoon or one by Pugh, visit Mailpictures.newsprints.co.uk or call 0191 6030 178. Share or comment on this article:
Testing fiasco threatens schools chaos: Teachers call for coronavirus screening as thousands of pupils across the country are sent home from lessons… but the demand is set to be low on ministers’ ‘priority list’ Almost every school in the country is now suffering virus-related problems, unions warn Teachers fear a ‘lockdown by default’ as thousands … Read more
PAUL THOMAS on… the coronavirus testing fiasco By Paul Thomas For The Daily Mail Published: 02:56 BST, 17 September 2020 | Updated: 03:04 BST, 17 September 2020 Advertisement To order a print of this Paul Thomas cartoon or one by Pugh, visit Mailpictures.newsprints.co.uk or call 0191 6030 178. Share or comment on this article:
Giving evidence to the Liaison Committee, Boris Johnson bluntly acknowledged that there is ‘not enough’ capacity for screening Boris Johnson today failed to rule out a second national lockdown as he admitted the government’s coronavirus testing system cannot cope. The PM insisted he was doing ‘everything in my power’ to avoid plunging the country back … Read more
Giving evidence to the Liaison Committee, Boris Johnson bluntly acknowledged that there is ‘not enough’ capacity for screening Boris Johnson today failed to rule out a second national lockdown as he admitted the government’s coronavirus testing system cannot cope. The PM insisted he was doing ‘everything in my power’ to avoid plunging the country back … Read more