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UK Government Unveils Plan to Run 500K COVID-19 Tests Per Day

Sep 10, 2020
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NEW YORK – The UK government plans to ramp testing for SARS-CoV-2 to half a million kits processed per day by the end of October in a bid to reopen the country after months of social distancing measures to control the virus, which causes the disease COVID-19.

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