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- The UK aims to be a world leader in Covid-19 antibody testing, says Matt Hancock.
- Singapore, which was thought to have beaten the virus, is closing schools to ‘pre-empt escalating infections’.
- The first person to be charged with breaching lockdown legislation has conviction dropped after police admitted they had misunderstood new laws.
- NHS makeshift hospitals to open in Bristol (1,000-patient) and Harrogate (500 beds). NHS Nightingale, in London, was officially opened by Prince Charles this morning.
- Global Covid-19 infections pass one million. UK Covid-19 deaths rose by 684 yesterday, bringing the total to 3,605.
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Testing times
After the scandalous shortages of antigen tests for those with Covid-19, the UK now aims to be one of the first nations to do mass antibody testing to determine who has had it.
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