Paul Wood

Never mind 100,000 – should we be aiming for 10 million tests a day?

It would mean only the infectious would have to be kept at home

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issue 02 May 2020

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Paul Wood
Paul Wood was a BBC foreign correspondent for 25 years, in Belgrade, Athens, Cairo, Jerusalem, Kabul and Washington DC. He has won numerous awards, including two US Emmys for his coverage of the Syrian civil war

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