Coronavirus: NHS 'will be able to cope' with increased demand
A test to see whether someone has already had coronavirus is being developed, but will not be available within days, the UK government's chief medical adviser says.
Once shown to be effective, she said"people will be able to order a test or go to Boots to have their finger-prick test done" in the"near future"."The one thing that is worse than no test, is a bad test," he added. "At this point in time, as of today, there is not enormous pressure on critical care compared to a bad or even normal winter's day," he said. The expectation is that pressure will increase over the next two or so weeks.
Prof Ferguson told MPs that he believed the government's current strategy would mean"in some areas of the country, ICUs will get very close to capacity but it won't be breached at a national level"."There will be areas of the country which are extremely stressed, but we are reasonably confident - which is all we can be at the current time - that, at the national level, we will be in capacity," he said.
There would be some resurgence of cases later, Prof Ferguson said, but these local outbreaks could hopefully be kept at a low level through more intensive testing.
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