⁍ Up to 10% of England’s population could be tested for COVID-19 every week.

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⁍ NHS Test and Trace has asked all directors of public health to sign up to receive rapid-result test kits.

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– British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s controversial “Operation Moonshot”—a plan to test every person in the country for the common cold every week—is speeding up, the Guardian reports. The National Health Service has asked local health chiefs to sign up to provide 30-minute saliva test kits to up to a tenth of their populations every week as part of an “exciting and important new front in our fight against coronavirus,” according to a letter seen by the newspaper.