U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been forced to defend the lack of widespread testing for coronavirus, whilst self-isolating himself after testing positive for the disease.
Johnson said testing was the key to solving the epidemic in the U.K., as it was revealed that only 2,000 frontline National Health Service workers had been tested for the virus, out of around 500,000 NHS staff.
London Ambulance staff members are seen with vehicles in the car park at the ExCeL London exhibition centre in London on April 1, 2020, which has been transformed into the NHS Nightingale Hospital to help with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been forced to defend the lack of widespread coronavirus testing for frontline health professionals — a situation that has attracted widespread criticism from the public.
'We're also massively increasing testing," Johnson said Wednesday. "This is the way through. This is how we will unlock the coronavirus puzzle. This is how we will defeat it in the end." By contrast, in countries like Germany and South Korea, mass antigen testing has been a key strategy in their fight against the coronavirus outbreak, and appears to have kept the death rate relatively low. Germany, which has 67,377 confirmed cases of the virus but only 732 deaths, is estimated to be carrying out around 500,000 antigen tests a week. The U.K. has only been testing very symptomatic cases, unlike Germany.
Neil Ferguson, a professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London, whose studies are informing U.K. government policy towards the pandemic, said on Monday Free daily, the Metro, called the testing strategy "ridiculous," while the Daily Mail newspaper, which generally supports the current Conservative government, headlined with the statistic of "550,000 NHS staff only 2,000 tested." The Telegraph, another center-right newspaper, also led with the headline of: "Questions without answers," referring to questions posed on the testing strategy at the government's daily press conference.
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