The COVID Diaries – 14 1st April
A huge debate is raging about why more people in the UK aren’t being tested for the Coronavirus.
On 31st December last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) was first made aware of the virus in Wuhan, China. One month later, the first Covid-19 cases were confirmed in the UK. Two months further on, an estimated 1.7 million people in the UK are infected and it has killed more than 2,300. The numbers continue to increase.
The WHO has said that countries should “test, test, test.”
In Germany, 70,000 people a day are being tested and the death rate is under 1%. But our government has failed, so far, to even reach its target of testing 10,000 people a day.
It is a catastrophic failure.