Randomised test of 100,000 to help decide end of UK lockdown
by Hannah Devlin from Science | The Guardian on (#52W4D)
Home testing kits will be sent out next week to clear up Wild West' of Covid-19 estimates
A randomly selected group of 100,000 people in England will be tested for Covid-19 in an attempt to quantify whether transmission levels of the virus are low enough to exit the lockdown.
The tests, next week, will provide a national snapshot of the proportion of those infected with the virus ahead of a planned review of restrictions on 7 May.
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