Coronavirus: Screening
(asked on 14th September 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when laboratory covid-19 testing capacity will be able to meet demand.
This question was answered on 5th February 2021
NHS Test and Trace has capacity in place to respond to increases in demand and we have built our capacity from 2,000 tests a day in March 2020 to our current capacity of more than half a million. We will open an additional new laboratory in 2021, which will add another 300,000 tests to our daily capacity.