500,000 people a day will show Covid-19 symptoms this winter

With more Covid-19 cases on the rise, Professor Andrew Hayward (UCL Epidemiology & Health) highlights the importance of the testing system in the UK’s fight to control the coronavirus, and adds the demand and capacity would “need to rise quite rapidly over the autumn and winter.”

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