To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of covid-19 test results received within 24 hours from tests administered in Slough constituency.
This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.
Answered on
6 December 2020
We have been focused on improving test turnaround times alongside expanding capacity and these are getting significantly better. Three out of five people who were tested in-person received their test result the very next day. Between 29 October and 4 November, the median time taken to receive a test result for regional test sites decreased to 27 hours from 31 hours in the previous week.
Similarly, the median time decreased for local test sites to 29 hours from 33 hours and for mobile testing units to 25 hours from 29 hours during the same period