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Updated 03/12/2020 22:09 GMT Is Boris Johnson Overselling The Moonshot Merits Of Rapid Covid Tests? Worries over reliability have prompted questions about using them in care homes, and elsewhere. You’re reading The Waugh Zone, our daily politics briefing. Sign up now to get it by email in the evening. From PMQs to the No.10 press briefings, Boris Johnson has had plenty of tricky questions lobbied his way over the past few months. But the one that really made him squirm most today was from a member of the public who innocently raised the topic of his wedding plans. In hi...

MASS testing school children for Covid would be 'shocking and totally unethical', public health experts say.

Exclusive: Boris Johnson’s plan to test millions of pupils a week in disarray after concerns raised

Article by Amanda Doyle THE UK Government has commissioned PA Consulting to develop plans to scale up manufacturing of lateral flow device (LFD) Covid-19 tests. According to The Financial Times, the £6.2m (US$8.5m) contract is mainly for PA Consulting to find suitable British manufacturers of LFD tests, with the aim of scaling up to producing 2m tests a day by April. The UK has primarily been using imported LFD tests from the US, Korea, and China, the majority of which has come from US company Innova Medical Group. According to The Financial Times, 2m tests were bought by the Government ea...

Dozens of employers are offering rapid testing to those without symptoms.