Coronavirus testing and the fantasy of amoonshot mission | Letters

Readers express their frustration with the utter shambles of England's test-and-trace regime

Despite what Matt Hancock says, there just aren't enough tests available (Report, 15 September). There are still no routine tests for medical professionals and other frontline services. Paramedics I have spoken to in Liverpool have been tested only once in the past six months and attend emergencies not knowing whether they are virus-free. They have colleagues who have caught Covid and some have died. It is unacceptable to put them at risk like this.
Barry Kushner
Labour councillor, Liverpool

Stories of symptomatic people being offered tests hundreds of miles from their homes hardly inspire confidence in the government's test-and-trace efforts, let alone the proposed 10m daily tests of Operation Moonshot (We just need the system to work': fresh reports of Covid test problems in England, 9 September). And these are just the symptomatic cases. Without universal testing to gauge the number of asymptomatic cases, we will not have any alternative to more lockdowns.
Phil Coughlin
Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne & Wear