Second most common for members of the public are mobile testing units, which saw 24-hour result return drop from 72.5 to 38.4 per cent. Professor Alastair Grant, an environmental scientist at the University of East Anglia, crunched the data published on the national testing dashboard. Official data show that on September 14, the most recent numbers available, testing labs processed 30,000 fewer tests than they could have done. Coronavirus testing centres have been pictured empty today despite hundreds of people saying they cannot book an appointment online. When pressed on why the testing system is rejecting people and sending them absurd distances cross-country to get tests, officials have blamed lab capacity.

Source: The Nation September 17, 2020 12:00 UTC