Covid: Keeping you updated 22

Last Sunday, there was a 50% overnight increase in people testing positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with nearly 3,000 cases representing the highest daily total since mid-May. Concerns are obviously being felt at a time when, along with school pupils, most of us are returning to some semblance of work outside the home. I have argued before about the benefit of testing across the board. But with Matt Hancock, on a recent radio phone in, unable to assuage the distress of a caller from Nottingham who had been told to go to Dundee for a test, local lockdowns and spikes are likely for some time yet.