LONDON – British lawmakers criticised the government’s handling of the COVID-19 testing crisis on Wednesday, as opposition leaders said Prime Minister Boris Johnson lacked a cohesive plan to fight the virus at a time when the country is facing a wave of pandemic crisis.
Johnson defended his efforts to develop test capability, and told the House of Commons that the government responded to a “colossal” construction in a call and said Britain is testing more people than other European countries.
But Angela Rayner, who led the Labour Party’s weekly interrogation, said she “put on skates” to make sure the country is in a position to cope with the cold winter months, when infection rates are expected to go off.
“They’ve had six months to get it right, yet the prime minister still can’t keep his promises,” Rayner said. “The health secretary said it would take weeks to fix this. We don’t have weeks. “
Check cuts are amid an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases across the UK that has led to new daily infections at levels not noticed since last May and forced the Conservative government to impose limits on public meetings. as a must for the spread of the virus, as it allows other inflamed people to self-support while helping fitness officers identify hot spots and locate those who are inflamed.
Johnson said Wednesday that the government would ration coronavirus testing, prioritizing fitness personnel and the call center after widespread reports that the country’s citizens could not plan the tests.
“We have a particularly higher capacity,” he told lawmakers on a key oversight committee. “I know many other people have had exasperating reports and sympathy, but 89% experience its effects within 24 hours. “
Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told Sky News that the government is developing a new list of testing priorities, suggesting that academics and their families may be next after the National Health and Social Services Service.
Over the past two days, lawmakers from all parties have bombarded the government with a litany of electorate court cases desperate to take exams so they can return to school or paintings and elders and family members.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons Tuesday that problems can take weeks. Meanwhile, others have come to the emergency room due to unavailability of checks, with an official at Bolton Hospital in the north. to the west of the city, saying that a hundred more people have come to get a check in the last few days.
The Association of School and University Leaders warned that schools may find it difficult to remain open unless testing capacity increases as more cases arise.
“Teachers want to be counted as key staff so you can at least remain this math instructor versus 30 other young people if their check is negative,” Geoff Barton, the group’s secretary general, told the BBC.
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