Boris Johnson has taken charge of efforts to source chemicals needed for coronavirus tests as the government admitted that they were being delivered too slowly for frontline NHS staff. Hospitals will be told today to test as many of their workers as possible amid frustration in government that laboratory capacity was being wasted because the health service was not ordering enough tests. However, NHS chiefs are pressing ministers to know when they will be able to use a super-lab for testing key workers, which was opened last week but has still not finished a trial period. Hospitals are frustrated that figures have been stuck for more than a week, with only 8,240 people tested yesterday. They believe that they could be carrying out many more

Source: The Times March 31, 2020 22:52 UTC