Exclusive: NHS Test and Trace asks public health directors to sign up to rapid-result test plan
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Up to 10% of England’s population could be tested for coronavirus every week after government officials asked local health chiefs to deploy 30-minute saliva kits in an acceleration of Boris Johnson’s controversial “Operation Moonshot” mass screening plan.
In a letter seen by the Guardian, NHS Test and Trace asked all directors of public health to sign up to receive rapid-result test kits for up to a tenth of their populations every week as part of “an exciting and important new front in our fight against coronavirus”.
