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Army to run dozens of mobile coronavirus testing units to hit 100,000-a-day target

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Army personnel have been drafted in to run dozens of mobile coronavirus testing units which can be sent across the UK. The facilities are set to be deployed to care homes, police stations and prisons to screen key workers and vulnerable people where there is "significant" demand.

The units take less than 20 minutes to set up, the Department for Health and Social Care says, and can test hundreds of people each day.

It comes as the Government is under pressure to ramp up Covid-19 testing with a target to hit 100,000 a day by next Thursday.

The new units, designed by the army's Royal Engineers, are vehicles which have been refitted to become testing sites. For the latest on the coronavirus pandemic, read our liveblog here Specially

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