Mass testing 'will be a disaster', academic warns
Regular Covid testing will result in a 'public health disaster' with thousands forced needlessly to self-isolate, an academic has warned. Officials hope the multi-billion-pound scheme, under which everyone in England will be invited to take two free tests a week, will help to ease the country out of lockdown safely. The Prime Minister insisted it will 'stop outbreaks in their tracks' and is necessary to ensure that the sacrifices made in recent months 'are not wasted'. But Allyson Pollock, a professor of public health at Newcastle University, warned the rollout of mass testing is 'going to do...
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