Just refresh webpage, UK minister tells people trying to get Covid tests

Nadhim Zahawi says supply of lateral flow tests increased to 300m a month and English schools to receive stock

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People struggling to get lateral flow tests for Covid should just refresh" their webpage, the education secretary has suggested, as concerns mount over the impact of the Omicron variant on the country's workforce.

Nadhim Zahawi told Sky News he had organised a separate supply of tests for schools in England ahead of children's return to the classrooms, amid requests they take at least two a week.