The U.K. government is facing renewed calls to speed up testing of patients and health care workers for the coronavirus, as the outbreak spreads.
Ministers and officials were challenged on Monday to explain why they said 10,000 tests were being carried out every day but only 7,000 people had received them.
The concerns over testing rates came after a week of lockdown measures, which officials suggested were starting to make a difference to slowing the spread of the virus. “People will rightly say, why wasn’t this all in place?" Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC radio on Tuesday when challenged on why the U.K.