COMMUNITY SURVELLLANCE OF ASYMTAMATIC CASES31 Jan 2021 11:26
I live in Wandsworth , which is a borough in London. I recently found this which advert asking pretty much anyone who lives in Wandsworth who is worried that may be asymptomatic, to arrange to have two tests per week.
"All Wandsworth borough residents who are either essential workers, volunteers, people providing vital support for a vulnerable resident, or who need regular reassurance that they don’t have COVID-19, can now apply for a rapid COVID-19 test. "
This is something being stepped up across the country - so the amount of antigen testing that will be required very shortly will build up rapidly. The inferior tests used today will be replaced once the UK RFT manufacturers can guarantee production and delivery IMO. This will need to continue for several years imo, as any individual persons status as far as the vaccines is involved will be unknown at any one time, especially as some will refuse it, some will not have adequate protection and each will probably have to be rolled each year, involving two jabs per year.
That's just the UK, imagine country's that do not manage to vaccinate their populations at all, or fully for years to come, how are they going to manage this virus - can only be by testing.
Wandworth is just one borough with a population of 350,00 people ...if only 100,000 took this up this would be 100,000 peeps having two tests per week, x 52 weeks equals over 5 million tests, not counting other testing going on in Wandsworth in hospitals, schools, etc. That's over 10% of what ODX will produce once manufacturing 2 million per week.
There are 32 inner London and outer London boroughs - so once ODX get to the point of 2 million rft being manufactured each week this would just about provide Greater London with their tests to meet this initiative.
https://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/news/news-january-2021/covid-testing-for-those-with-no-symptoms-rolled-out/
https://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/news/news-january-2021/covid-testing-for-those-with-no-symptoms-rolled-out/
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