Also a lack of testing means that we will find it much harder to come out of this lock down situation.
We've got doctors, nurses and front line NHS staff who are either self isolating or are infected with covid 19 and are working unknowingly.
They are the priority, along with care workers, but the government has to get the whole economy working again in the next couple of months. Without wide scale testing - and knowing who has and hasn't got Covid 19, they have no chance.