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City-wide Covid testing could allow people to ‘go about their business’, says Government adviser
City-wide Covid-19 tests could free millions of people from self-isolation, a Government adviser has suggested, allowing people to "go about their...
Mass Covid testing plan to offer route out of lockdown
The first pilot scheme starting on Friday and offered to everyone in Liverpool, including schoolchildren. Tests will be provided in...
Italy testing chaos as new rules require travellers to prove they are virus free
Travellers to Italy are facing chaos after being told they can't use NHS tests to meet a new requirement to...
Why is there ‘a postcode lottery’ for testing children’s eyes?
The pause of routine optometrist appointments has intensified the problem. Hardiman-McCartney adds: “Lockdown happened at the time of the year...
Doctors will be able to buy non-Covid-19 testing from private hospitals in new ‘pay-as-you-go’ deal
Individual NHS trusts and local GPs across the UK will be able to buy non-coronavirus check-ups, tests and operations at...
Test and Trace failing to reach three in 10 people testing positive for coronavirus
Saffron Cordery, the deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents hospitals, said: "We continue to be extremely concerned about...
MP apologises after travelling to Parliament with Covid-19 symptoms before testing positive
Ms Ferrier spoke in the coronavirus debate in the House of Commons on Monday and, by her account, tested positive...
Coronavirus testing scheme could allow care home visitors to hug relatives
Care home visitors could soon be allowed to cuddle their relatives after taking a Covid-19 test that provides results in...
Testing fiasco could mean NHS app will ‘have limited effect’ because of time lag, says expert
The NHS app will only have a "limited effect" on containing the coronavirus because too many people are waiting more...
Barcode glitch prompts new testing system chaos as thousands refused entry
He posted on Twitter: "Massive gridlock in Catford. Turns out a drive-through Covid testing centre has been opened here. All...
Sage member hits back at Dido Harding over claims testing demand surge not predicted
A prominent member of Sage has hit back at claims by Baroness Harding that the NHS was not warned that...
Saliva testing can give the Government its ‘world-beating’ system
It is all too easy to criticise the Government's quarantine scheme with no credible solutions, but we have one. Forget...
Pooled testing to be used to help Government hit ‘moonshot’ target
It follows revelations by The Telegraph that manpower shortages have prompted health chiefs to appeal to untrained students to man...
G20 leaders to consider international plan for airport coronavirus testing
The WTTC's 12-point plan includes an agreed "traffic light" system of reporting Covid-19 rates, with "green list" countries potentially set...
Boris Johnson was warned not to call testing target a ‘moonshot’, adviser reveals
Mr Johnson set a target of millions of tests per day, with results delivered in as little as 20 minutes,...
Government prioritises care home testing, after admitting sending swabs abroad to clear backlog
The Government will prioritise coronavirus tests for care homes in at risk areas, The Telegraph understands. It comes as the...
Moonshot coronavirus testing trials to begin next month
A senior Sage scientist told The Telegraph the group had never supported the introduction of weekly tests for the population,...
Government’s ‘Moonshot’ programme aims to increase coronavirus testing to 10 million a day
It also revealed a number of companies have agreed deals to reach three million tests per day by December. Firms...
Huge expansion of coronavirus testing to bring end to regional lockdowns
Under the new plans, the ONS will be able to give estimates of infection rates at local authority level, meaning...
NHS Test and Trace contacting fewer than half the contacts of people testing positive
Keith Neal, emeritus professor of the epidemiology of infectious diseases at the University of Nottingham, said: "One persistent problem is...
City dwellers will be within a 30-min walk of Covid testing centre, under plans to expand Test and Trace
The plans come amid increasing concern that the NHS Test and Trace system is failing to reach adequate numbers of...
Chris Whitty and Jeremy Hunt clash over UK’s abandonment of mass testing and tracing in March
When dealing with the question of why a test, trace and isolate system similar to South Korea was not modelled...
Hospitals feared testing staff for coronavirus to avoid sending them home, MPs told
Hospitals failed to test staff for coronavirus because they feared having to send too many workers home, when almost half were...
Nightingale hospitals to be converted to cancer testing centres
Nightingale hospitals will be converted into cancer testing centres in a bid to cope with a backlog in suspected cases,...
Testing capacity target reached a day early, but senior Conservatives warn it must be translated into real tests
Boris Johnson’s target to boost testing capacity to 200,000 has been met a day early, the government said, but senior...
PHE waited weeks to get help from labs despite lacking coronavirus testing capacity, committee hears
She said testing had been stopped in March"because of the sheer scale of cases in the UK, which had been...
