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Coronavirus: Is the UK testing enough people?

EPA
EPA

Three months have passed since the World Health Organisation was first made aware, on 31 December 2019, of a previously unknown virus causing pneumonia among patients in the city of Wuhan in eastern China.

Just one month after these first reports, on the 31 January 2020, the first Covid-19 cases were confirmed in the UK, as the virus spread from China to countries across the planet.

Two months after this, the UK is in lockdown and the disease has gone on to infect an estimated 1.7 million people and killed more than 2,300.

The numbers are still climbing.

But unlike many other countries fighting the virus, the UK has not rolled out widespread testing. So are the authorities here doing enough?