Britain has tested a total of 135,000 people, compared with 500,000 a week in Germany
, hospitals that could test for covid-19 were instructed to save their tests for patients and not to test staff. That changed on March 27th. Over the following weekend, a small sample of tests were carried out onworkers. The results were explosive: only around one in seven of those self-isolating actually had the virus, which meant that many who had been staying at home could in fact safely work. Failure to test, thus, had greatly exacerbated the hospital staff shortage.
Exactly what has gone wrong is unclear. Michael Gove, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, says there is a shortage of chemical ingredients. According to Chris Hopson ofProviders, a membership organisation, with enough swabs and solution the health service’s pathology laboratories could carry out around 100,000 tests a day.
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