Matt Hancock on testing: "I'm going to level with you"

— unlike Germany we do not have a large diagnostics industry
— there's been a shortage of swabs and reagents
— I took the decision that patients should be prioritised: "anybody in my shoes would have taken the same decicion"

Matt Hancock

— approving tests that don't work is dangerous and I will not do it
— some tests offered to the UK fail 3 out of 4 times