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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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