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UK to ramp up mass virus testing amid second wave fears

'There are new technologies coming on track which we are buying and testing now,' Matt Hancock told BBC Radio 4's Today programme

Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Prime Minister Boris Johnson
Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Prime Minister Boris Johnson Photo: Simon Dawson/Getty Images

The UK government plans to ramp up a plan bring in population-wide virus testing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.

In an interview with the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Hancock said there would be no fixed date to the plan, and that mass testing would curb the spread of Covid-19 among asymptomatic carriers.

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