The Army is requisitioning testing machines from university labs as ministers race to carry out urgent coronavirus checks on NHS staff. Military logistic teams have begun transporting the machines to a central lab where the standardised tests can quickly be put into action, the Times reported. The Royal College of Nursing have said that it is not just frontline NHS staff deeply concerned about contracting coronavirus themselves - they are anxious about passing it on to the very vulnerable patients in other wards. The NHS haven't got ability to coordinate it so we are sending more army personnel to support that planning. Nursing leaders had called upon Mr Johnson to intervene over the lack of protective clothing for NHS staff, telling him that many of those doctors and nurses putting their lives on the line are coming out of retirement.

Source: Daily Mail March 24, 2020 10:01 UTC