A drive-through coronavirus test site at Chessington World of Adventures, Surrey, was almost empty yesterday. Private laboratories are now being drafted in to do the tests where before these were being performed through a centralised process. The prime minister accepted last night that mass testing was the way out of the crisis and said in a tweet that it would “eventually unlock the puzzle of coronavirus”. Boris Johnson: Testing will "unlock the puzzle" of coronavirusHospitals revealed yesterday how they had to beg for testing supplies from vets and brew their own chemicals to check staff because of shortages. NHS testing could be increased eightfold to 100,000 a day if these shortages were solved, according to the hospitals’ group

Source: The Times April 01, 2020 22:57 UTC