Test-and-trace chief tells MPs that test figures would now be published every day
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Dido Harding, head of the UK’s test-and-trace programme and the newly created National Institute for Health Protection, has told parliament’s science and technology committee that demand for coronavirus tests across the UK was two to three times higher than capacity.
The total capacity was now 242,817 tests, made up of 82,817 in the NHS (known as pillar 1) and 160,000 in the community (pillar 2). The numbers have not been published since 10 September, but Harding promised they would now be published every day.
