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Coronavirus walk-in centres to help during winter
A network of coronavirus-testing walk-in centres are to be set up across England in an attempt to persuade more people to come forward for testing.
It is hoped that several hundred walk-in units will be operational by the end of October, in time for winter, when there is concern cases could start to rise. The walk-in units will be in addition to the drive-through centres, mobile testing units and home-ordering service that are already in operation across the country.
The government's weekly random test of 30,000 people suggests that there are about 1,700 new infections a day. The testing service is only picking up approximately a third of those.
Baroness Harding, who heads the NHS Test and Trace service, said no-one in urban areas should be further than a 30-minute walk away from one of the new walk-in centres, which have been piloted in a handful of places over recent weeks.
The ambition is that by the end of October 500,000 tests a day will be able to be processed. Currently, the figure stands at just over 300,000.
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