Raab26 Apr 2020 12:30
“Dominic Raab has said ramping up testing for coronavirus is key to the "medium-to-long-term" plan as he reiterated the UK government was on track to reach 100,000 daily tests by the end of April.
"We have certainly got to get the daily testing up to hundreds of thousands. That, along with tracking and tracing, will give us more flexibility to open up measures, open up access," he said. "That, along with vaccine and therapeutics will be the medium-long-term way to fight this virus."
When asked by Andrew Marr about reports the UK had ordered 30 million antibody tests amid a breakthrough in the technology, Raab said: "I'm not sure we have ordered those but we are certainly looking closely at it".
He said he was not sure if the antibody test, which would show if someone had had the virus and therefore possibly immunity, could be scaled up at this stage.“
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