Covid-19 update: Will antibody tests be a gamechanger?

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• The UK has approved a new antibody test for detecting Covid-19. Details below.
• It could take ‘many months’ to restart NHS services, according to experts from three leading think tanks. The news comes as A&E attendance fell to its lowest level on record.
• A study from the University of Manchester has claimed that 29% of the UK population may have already had Covid-19 by the end of April.
• Plans for the NHS Covid-19 tracing app have been leaked after officials put the documents online by mistake. Details below.
• Teachers are more likely to contract Covid-19 from colleagues than pupils, according to the government’s chief pandemic modeller.
• Some 44 NHS workers in London who tested positive for Covid-19 during a scientific trial were not informed that they had the virus.
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