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Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson Hon FRIBA (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, writer, and former journalist serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2019. He was Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016. Johnson was Member of Parliament for Henley from 2001 to 2008 and has been MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015. Ideologically, Johnson identifies as a one-nation conservative.
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Minister fails to explain why UK coronavirus testing so far behind Germany
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The government has failed again to explain why the UK is lagging behind other countries in testing to see if people have coronavirus.
The UK is currently carrying out around 10,000 tests a day compared to 70,000 in Germany. Just 2,000 NHS staff have been tested so far out of around a quarter of a million.
Tests of frontline staff currently make up around 500 of the 10,000 daily tests meaning thousands of medics are currently isolating when they could be treating patiets.
Two weeks ago Boris Johnson said they were aiming for 250,000 a day both of testing to see if people have the virus and antibody tests - which have not yet been approved - to see if people have had covid-19.
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