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Coronavirus tests to be 'prioritised' as chaos will still take 'weeks' to solve

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Coronavirus tests are to be 'prioritised' as Matt Hancock admitted testing chaos would go on for weeks. The Health Secretary said acute care "is and always has been" the priority for tests, and that social care would be next.

He said a new list of priorities would be published, but did not say when. Mr Hancock said prioritisation was "a choice that we must make".

But Mr Hancock was bombarded with questions from MPs about people with Covid-19 symptoms who are struggling to access walk-in tests, being sent to far off test centres across the country and being told there are no at-home tests available.

In one baffling anecdote, Twickenham MP Munira Wilson said her constituents couldn't get a test when using their own postcode, but if they put

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