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Pilot of rapid Covid tests under way in NHS hospitals
A new trial of rapid, mass coronavirus testing has begun in hospitals and will soon be rolled out to schools, universities and care homes.
Downing Street has said that the pilot scheme is under way with tests of asymptomatic NHS staff at hospitals in Manchester, Southampton and Basingstoke, with hospitals in Liverpool, Birmingham, Leeds and Newcastle set to be involved in the coming weeks.
A spokesman for the Prime Minister said that the trial will then begin testing people in schools, universities and care homes in the worst-affected regions, although no clarification has been given to where such areas are.
The announcement forms the latest attempt to push ahead with the so-called Operation Moonshot, a £100 billion plan to deliver up to 10 million tests a day. As part of it, two types of tests will be used. Hospitals will use lamp tests, an abbreviation for loop-mediated isothermal amplification, which is a swab and saliva method that delivers results in 60 to 90 minutes. Schools, universities and care homes will use lateral flow tests, a swab test that does not need processing in a laboratory and gives a result in less than an hour, and often significantly less.
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