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Struggling with a shortage of testing equipment and particularly for the self—administered lateral flow tests, probably the test people are most familiar with. what is the biden administration trying to do about that? it has announced that it is buying 500 million and will be disturbing them, but they were obviously caught a little by surprise by the failure of the vaccine to do as much of a job as they anticipated and biden complained that trump had not done a very good job of tests and they look like they have not done a greatjob either. the contracts are now being let. apparently there ar...

Yesterday lord geidt did not fundamentally revise his questions were borisjohnson or seek to take this any further. the difficulty for borisjohnson still lies in whether the parliamentary commissioner for standards will now also take this up and whether therefore there will be another sort of inquiry into it. and whether this thing will drag on and on. . ~' whether this thing will drag on and on. . ~ , ., one of the changes announced earlier this week to covid testing rules, for people travelling to the uk from abroad, has come into effect. pre—departure tests are no longer needed for those ...

Tests — ministers have promised millions of additional rapid test kits will be delivered to pharmacies. matt graveling reports. this is how london rang in 2020. but this year, like last, will feel very different for many people. for the second year running, london's famous new year's eve fireworks celebrations have been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic. in comparison this year, restrictions have eased. there are vaccinations and tests also available. but with coronavirus infections in record numbers, how will people choose to celebrate? well, that does depend on where you are. n...

So we're now down our final box of lateral flow tests. the government says 8 million lateral flow tests will be available by tomorrow, but mark burdon, who runs the six pharmacies in north—east england, hasn't seen any extra supply. i tried ordering an additional supply this afternoon and that order was rejected. so, unfortunately, we're going to have to start to turn people away once the current supplies are exhausted. it's very frustrating when you've got people in front of you and you're unable to have them the tests that they are asking for. and a lateral flow tests become even more impo...

Forward in time, more people will still be infectious, the lateral flow tests will still go positive and they will have to stay at home. and everything you are saying reminds us again how important being able to get hold of those lateral flow test is. it is one of those things that the federation of small businesses said to me that their members are saying you often can't get one from the website. earlier in the day we heard from the royal pharmaceutical society who said they were having a problem simply getting enough boxes out to chemists for people to go and collect them. it appears there i...