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A plan to prioritise certain people for coronavirus tests will be published in the coming days following widespread problems with the system. NHS staff and patients - along with care workers - will be at the top of the list. The former health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, told Nick Robinson that the government should aim to expand testing capacity by more than currently planned: 鈥淚f we roughly quadrupled the testing capacity that we are currently planning - not 500,000 a day but two million a day 鈥� you would be able to test everyone in the population once a month.鈥� He went on to say: 鈥淎nd that you could do not with a sort of moonshot of new technologies - you could actually do that with existing technologies. So that really is the next step if we鈥檙e going to try to find a way of controlling this surge of public demand.鈥� With Dr Mike Skinner, a reader in virology at Imperial College London who volunteered to work in one of the giant government run Lighthouse Labs.

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