LONDON, Nov 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Another 532 people died in Britain, marking the highest daily COVID-19 death toll since mid-May. The new deaths bring the total fatalities in Britain to 49,770, figures showed.
Another 20,412 people tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 1,233,775, the data showed.
Earlier yesterday, Dido Harding, chief of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) test and trace programme, acknowledged that the system had failed to predict the scale of demand for testing, as schools and universities returned this autumn.
“As schools came back, we saw demand significantly outstrip (the) planned capacity delivery… None of us were able to predict that in advance,” Harding told lawmakers.
Meanwhile, Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, said that the government is set to expand mass tests across the country, after the trial in Liverpool.
He said, rapid turnaround tests are offered to every local authority in England, and the British government is now aiming to roll out similar schemes across the rest of Britain.
To bring life back to normal, countries such as Britain, China, Germany, Russia and the United States are racing against time to develop COVID-19 vaccines.– NNN-AGENCIES
