Newspaper headlines: 'Game-changing' 90-minute test and over-50s backlash
Two"game-changing" coronavirus tests - which give results in 90 minutes - will be rolled out from next week, the Daily Mail reports. Heralding the development as"transformative" it says the NHS and care homes will get the tests first, before they are made more widely available. Health Secretary Matt Hancock called the move"lifesaving", the paper adds.The Times calls the tests a"significant boost" to control the virus as winter approaches.
One of the Britain's top scientists has accused the government of drawing a"shroud of secrecy" over key decisions in the coronavirus crisis, the Guardian reports. Sir Paul Nurse, the Nobel laureate and director of the Francis Crick Institute in London, has urged ministers to be more open about the reasoning behind their policies.
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