LONDON, April 30 ― Britain plans to test a randomly chosen group of 100,000 people for Covid-19 as part of its efforts to understand infection rates better before loosening restrictions on the public, its health ministry said today. The tests to see if people are currently infected with the...
Britain’s Health Ministry says it plans to test a randomly chosen group of 100,000 people for Covid-19. — Reuters pic
The tests to see if people are currently infected with the respiratory disease, led by London's Imperial College and polling company Ipsos MORI, follow a separate testing programme announced last week by the University of Oxford and the Office for National Statistics. Improving capacity to track infection rates in different parts of Britain is seen by the health ministry as essential to ease restrictions safely.
The Imperial College programme will shortly contact 100,000 people across England at random and send them self-testing kits to see if they are infected.
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