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Down to ten, so we want to make sure that that is working as we would expect it to be. but that brings us back to lateral flow tests. for the system to work, there has to be enough of them to go around. labour says the government needs to get a grip and provide enough tests. catherine burns, bbc news. and cathjoins me now. a huge amount of pressure on the testing system at the moment? notjust an not just an issue notjust an issue with lateral flow test but also pcr test. at one stage this morning there were no pcr test to be sent out anywhere across the uk and have you wanted to book to go to ...

Tests when you knew this variant was on its way? >> exactly. mollie, he was given the most advanced testing system in the world. this was a novel virus. there were no tests when president trump inherited this. he got covid-19 in the united states coming over from china, there were no tests. he developed more tests and administered more tests than western europe combined by last fall for that is impressive. why didn't president biden keep it up? >> it's really important to go back and think about what last year was like before president -- the year before president biden was made a president. y...

They are mildly symptomatic or have no symptoms at all, that's really long, so if you can cut ten days to seven or ideally even five or fewer, i mean, maybe you could also have a testing system so that if you keep on doing daily tests until you test negative, maybe that's a way for us to go too. i also think right now we need to figure out a way to incentivize testing. right now we are disincentivizing testing because if somebody tests positive and now they're going to visit their relatives, they travel across the country, they test positive, that's really difficult for them. they're now stuck...

Really long, so if you can cut ten days to seven or ideally even five or fewer, i mean, maybe you could also have a testing system so that if you keep on doing daily tests until you test negative, maybe that's a way for us to go too. i also think right now we need to figure out a way to incentivize testing. right now we are disincentivizing testing because if somebody tests positive and now they're going to visit their relatives, they travel across the country, they test positive, that's really difficult for them. they're now stuck in another part of the country for ten days. they can't be at ...

Cases, but also hospitalisations and deaths. it takes a while for people who get sick from coronavirus to turn up in at the figures. it really doesn't look back to the turn of the month. the official model from scotland is also quite low, that's why i think nicola sturgeon is referring to the bleeding and case data with what's happening from omicron. brute data with what's happening from omicron. ~ ., , , omicron. we have seen the highest number of daily _ omicron. we have seen the highest number of daily infections - omicron. we have seen the highest| number of daily infections yesterday sinc...