purplenose
Well-Known Member
A drive-through coronavirus test site has opened in Wolverhampton to allow members of the public to check if they have the disease.
The NHS in England is set to "ramp up" facilities nationwide so 10,000 tests can be done each day
The number of people with the coronavirus in the UK has risen to 456 after a further 83 tested positive for the disease in the last 24 hours.
The number is the biggest daily increase in coronavirus cases in the UK, where six people have died from the illness.
There were 54 new cases recorded in the 24 hours leading up to 9am on Tuesday, and 46 new cases were identified in the 24 hours up to 9am on Monday.
The daily figures have been released by Public Health England
A study has found people who have contracted the coronavirus are at their most contagious early after becoming infected and potentially before displaying symptoms.
Scientists in Berlin and Munich conducted the study, which is still awaiting peer review, by analysing clinical data from patients who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and checking them with throat swabs.
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-number-of-uk-cases-rises-to-456-11955298
It is clear more tests need to be done, and should have been before now. As I have previously mentioned I am not convinced that I have already had it. I did the 111 thing and as I had not been to Italy or China they were not at all interested.
Widespread testing may of course cause more panic as the infection count will probably rocket. It will however surely give a more accurate view as to what is actually happening and in that there may infact be some positive news.