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| Coronavirus: Many waiting longer than 24 hours for test results | Coronavirus: Many waiting longer than 24 hours for test results |
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| Many people in England are still waiting longer than 24 hours for their coronavirus test results, figures show. | Many people in England are still waiting longer than 24 hours for their coronavirus test results, figures show. |
| Four in 10 tests done by mobile units and three in 10 carried out at regional drive-thru centres were taking longer than that, data up to 24 June shows. | Four in 10 tests done by mobile units and three in 10 carried out at regional drive-thru centres were taking longer than that, data up to 24 June shows. |
| Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he expected such tests to be processed in 24 hours by the end of June. | Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he expected such tests to be processed in 24 hours by the end of June. |
| But the data - the first released on 24-hour turn around times - shows significant progress has been made. | But the data - the first released on 24-hour turn around times - shows significant progress has been made. |
| Four times as many tests are being processed within a day than were being done at the start of June when the prime minister made his pledge. | |
| He said 24-hours turnarounds would be achieved by the end of the month apart from for those posted out - care homes and households can request postal kits if they do not want to use one of the testing centres. | |
| The Department of Health figures showed 24-hour turnaround performance of: | |
| Alongside these testing routes, hospitals also test patients. More than nine in 10 of those are processed in 24 hours. | |
| The figures released by the government also included performance for the contact tracing system. | |
| The results are broadly in line with previous weeks - one in four people who test positive do not engage with the contact tracers. | |
| Of the 23,000 close contacts given by those that did, nearly 17,000 were reached and asked to isolate at home. | |
| NHS Test and Trace chair Baroness Dido Harding said "tireless efforts" were being made to improve the service. |