School kids and teachers to get weekly tests and rolled out to everyone by winter
SCHOOL kids and teachers in Southampton will get weekly coronavirus swabs as part of a £500million pilot study with hopes it could get Britain back to normal.
It would mean people can get an almost on-the-spot result and immediately know if they need to isolate from other people, instead of having to wait as long as 3 days for test results. "Until now our testing program has been focused on finding the virus for a clinical need... we also can use testing once we have this rapid turn-around to give people confidence that they can go around their normal business."
These tests could eventually be rolled out to schools around the country to stop entire classes having to self-isolate if a child shows a symptom. Ministers are hoping mass testing could help get the country back to normal by ensuring all new infections are tightly controlled and millions of people can safely return to offices, events and sport fixtures while the world waits for a vaccine.He said the new tests would get the UK closer to rolling out community tests which "can help suppress the virus and enable more of the things that make life worth living.
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