Operation Moonshot aims to carry out millions of covid-19 tests in the UK each day. Heres what it would take to achieve this wildly optimistic plan
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The UK faces a very difficult problem of rising covid-19 deaths and cases if it does not change course, chief medical officer for England Chris Whitty has warned
The world is on track to soon exceed a million deaths from covid-19. It is a number we shouldnt become blas about
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