Darlington and Stockton among 67 councils to roll out community coronavirus testing programmes
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The news has intensified the debate about the merits of the multi-billion-pound mass testing programme, which is being rolled out at speed across the country before a full scientific evaluation has been completed.
Sky News understands that the initial results from the study of the pilot, which is being conducted by University of
Liverpool academics, were only presented to SAGE yesterday. A source familiar with the research said that the final report could be weeks away. It s scandalous, said Allyson Pollock, director of the Institute of Health and Society at Newcastle University. They re putting in place an intervention that hasn t been evaluated, will possibly do more harm and will cost a lot of money.