Covid testing: does Operation Moonshot have a shot at success?
by Robert Booth, Social affairs correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#59N9F)
UK government is pinning hopes on mass testing but public health directors find flaws in thinking
Operation Moonshot, the government's mass testing mission to screen millions of asymptomatic people every week, is having a bumpy lift-off.
The project only emerged because of a leak last month and such was the stated ambition - 100bn to deliver 10m tests a day - that MPs laughed when Matt Hancock talked about it in parliament.
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