Tag: virus test

• Saturday, April 4th 2020 - 08:03 UTC

  UK government promises 100,000 virus tests per day by end of April

  

  Britain’s health minister promised a tenfold increase in the number of daily tests for coronavirus by the end of the month after the government faced criticism for failing to roll out mass checks for health workers and the public.

• Friday, March 20th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Falklands and Covid 19: no positive cases identified; GCSE exams suspended; limited medevacs

  

  The Falklands weekly Penguin News this week published a summary of releases, decisions, recommendations and overall strategy of the Islands facing, as in the rest of the world the challenge of Covid 19. The big news is that the Falklands until this week, had no positive tested cases of the virus and that so far there is sufficient health care capacity and expertise to face the situation.