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A heavily-pregnant woman has told of the "misery" of trying to get a coronavirus test for her ill daughter.

Verity Ward from South Shields booked for her three-year-old daughter Romilly to be tested at Doxford Park in Sunderland at 13:30 today after the youngster became ill overnight.

Ms Ward is 38 weeks pregnant and due to have a Caesarean operation in the next few days so needs to know if the virus has infected her household.

But she and her partner got stuck in a queue on the A19 which had backed up from the testing centre.

"We saw some police cars go up past us, and then eventually a man came down and told each car that the computers at the centre had crashed and they weren't going to be able to do any tests," she said.

"As we did a three-point-turn to leave, we saw police stopping other cars from joining the queue so at least those people didn't have to endure the misery.

"As for us, I guess we try again tomorrow. I've got a lot of hospital appointments coming up and I really can't be doing 14 days isolation. I want to know if I'm safe."