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Covid testing: does Operation Moonshot have a shot at success?
UK government is pinning hopes on mass testing but public health directors find flaws in thinking10% of England’s population could be tested for Covid-19 every weekCoronavirus – latest updatesOperation Moonshot, the government’s mass testing mission to screen millions of asymptomatic people every week, is having a bumpy lift-off.The project only emerged because of a leak last month and such was the stated ambition – £100bn to deliver 10m tests a day – that MPs laughed when Matt Hancock talked about it in parliament. Continue reading...
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