“moonshot” that would see people carry out coronavirus tests daily would cost the UK £100 billion, leaked government documents reveal.
The Prime Minister’s wildly ambitious hope for a pregnancy test style kit that millions could have has a price tag almost as much as the entire NHS budget in England for the last year, according to the prestigious British Medical Journal.
But that would be a small price to pay to get over the “rule of six” limitations on social gatherings the PM was forced to announce on Wednesday in the face of surging infections, particularly amongst young people.
Johnson pinned his hopes for economic recovery on a daily test even as his medical and scientific advisers expressed scepticism at a Downing Street press.
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