BREAKING: Coronavirus testing to be ramped up for NHS frontline staff
Michael Gove announced on Friday that more frontline workers would be tested to see if they currently have the virus In a Downing Street press briefing today, Michael Gove announced that a new alliance between business, research institutes and universities had made it possible to boost testing capacity.
Health and social care workers across the country will be given an antigen detection test to see if they currently have the virus and be able to return to work safely if it comes back negative.supports HTML5 video A patient COVID-19 swab is taken out from a sterile tube as lab technicians carry out a diagnostic test for coronavirus in the microbiology laboratory inside the Specialist Virology Centre at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff
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