Health
Covid-19: Government plans to spend £100bn on expanding testing to 10 million a day – The BMJ
The UK government has drawn up plans to carry out up to 10 million covid-19 tests a day by early next year as part of a huge £100bn (€110bn; $130bn) expansion of its national testing programme, documents seen by The BMJ show.
The internal correspondence reve…
- Gareth Iacobucci,
- Rebecca Coombes
- The BMJ
The UK government has drawn up plans to carry out up to 10 million covid-19 tests a day by early next year as part of a huge £100bn (110bn; $130bn) expansion of its national testing programme, documents seen by The BMJ show.
The internal correspondence reveals that the government is prepared to almost match what it spends on the NHS in England each year (£130bn) to fund mass testing of the population to sup…
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