The British government is under fire for only testing a tiny percentage of National Health Service staff as deaths from COVID-19 in the U.K. rapidly rise to nearly 3,000.
But Libby Nolan, a nurse from Wales who has coronavirus symptoms and is waiting on test results, notes that Johnson was tested quickly, unlike the tens of thousands of health care staff who remain untested in self-isolation, unable to work.
Responding to public anger, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Thursday that the U.K. aims to carry out 100,000 tests a day by the end of this month. Hancock, who has just come out of self-isolation after contracting COVID-19, said the government would increase testing by working with universities and private companies such as Amazon and Boots, a British health and pharmacy chain, to do more swab testing.
Health care workers say not only has the lack of testing sidelined staff, but it has also prevented those still on the job from working more efficiently and aggressively.
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