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UK govt accused of virus testing failures

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London: An influential group of British lawmakers is accusing the government of failing to conduct enough tests for the new coronavirus, saying the lapse helped COVID-19 cut a deadly swath through the country’s nursing homes.

The House of Commons’ Science and Technology Committee says that testing capacity has been inadequate for most of the pandemic so far.

In a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, committee chairman Greg Clark said Britain’s testing capacity drove strategy, rather than strategy driving capacity.

The UK authorities initially sought to trace and test everyone who had been in contact with people infected with the coronavirus. But they abandoned that strategy in mid-March as the number of infections overwhelmed the country’s limited testing capacity. (AP)

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