Thursday 3 September 2020

Britain allocates £500 million for expansion of rapid tests, ‘innovative’ trials.


BRITAIN is pumping £500 million into trials of rapid Covid-19 tests and into population-testing for the disease, the health ministry said on Thursday (3).

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he hoped mass testing using faster Covid-19 tests could be rolled out towards the end of the year, adding that they were key to restoring freedoms after months of Covid-19 restrictions.

“I want to solve the problem by having the next generation tests at a radically bigger scale. You can’t do that on the current technology very easily,” he told BBC television.

Asked when it would be available for everyone, he said: “Over the coming weeks and months ahead. We’re starting the roll out today.”




Full story at Eastern Eye.

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