Scotland says concerned about coronavirus testing backlog

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Monday she was concerned about a backlog of novel coronavirus test results which was starting to affect the swift reporting of the state of the national outbreak.

"We now have a very serious concern about the backlog of test results being faced by the UK lab network," Sturgeon told reporters. "This apparent delay in turnaround is causing us concern."

(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)