Testing for coronavirus: what is being done in the UK?

Tests are mostly taking place in hospitals but there are calls to massively scale up efforts

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As of last week, when the prime minister announced Britain was no longer in the “contain” phase of the pandemic, most testing outside of hospitals stopped. People with symptoms are expected to self-isolate but will not know whether they have Covid-19. That means they will not know if they are immune or still at risk – and a risk to other people.

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