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England’s NHS Test and Trace service wasn’t prepared for the increased demand that has seen thousands of people unable to access tests, the head of the service has admitted. But Dido Harding insisted that the service had followed modelling from the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) when planning for surges in demand as schools reopened this month. The past week has seen a growing number of reports of people across England being unable to access covid-19 tests at local sites.1 Harding told MPs that current estimates showed that demand was up to four times higher than capacity. “We built5 our testing capacity plans [for the autumn] …
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