Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, stated that everyone in England will now be able to take a COVID-19 test twice a week as a new drive is launched to track the pandemic with the economy reopening.

The British PM stated that the mass testing program would help break the chain of transmission and detect cases without symptoms. While a large part of Europe enters new lockdown restrictions to fight the surge in cases, Johnson has laid down a plan to lift restrictions over the coming months. According to junior health minister Edward Argar, the tests would be sent to homes or businesses, or obtained from pharmacies or test centers… (ET Healthworld – Reuters, April 6, 2021)