Drive-through and mobile testing sites give faster results than home versions. Officials are encouraging people to use themMost coronavirus tests are too slow for effective contact tracing, figures suggest. The scheme is also struggling to trace people as they move around more. Just 8 per cent of home testing kits and 14 per cent of the batch kits sent out by post have results within 24 hours, making it much harder to hit the goal of tracing and isolating contacts within 48 hours of someone becoming ill.Six in ten home tests take more than 48 hours and officials are now encouraging people to go to testing sites in person if they can. Postal kits made up 58 per cent of the “pillar 2” or community tests carried out over the past week, with the remainder processed by drive-through and mobile testing

Source: The Times July 02, 2020 16:18 UTC