NHS to provide 100,000 in-house tests a day to combat staff shortages

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Hospitals have been given until the end of October to roughly double their capacity from current numbers lockdown2 coronavirus

The NHS is ramping up its in-house testing to 100,000 a day amid fears over staff absence due to the ailing Test and Trace system.

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Double the capacity for non covid problems I hope. Thats a bigger priority until covid actually starts getting worse in hospitals, only when that is 🙄

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