THE first coronavirus antibody test that could help ease lockdown in the UK has been given the go-ahead by Public Health England.
No10 is now keen to get its hands on “as many of these as possible” after the potentially game-changing kit was developed by Swiss healthcare company Roche.
The test was given the seal of approval by PHE’s Porton Down facility last week – with the government now in talks to buy millions of the kit, The Telegraph reports.
Roche is said to be on standby to provide hundreds of thousands of laboratory-based tests to the NHS each week.
But how else are doctors and researchers tackling COVID-19?
Here to answer that and more Sun-reader questions is TV’s most-trusted medic Dr Hilary Jones.
In the final episode of Ask Dr Hilary: Coronavirus Explained…
– My wife has a 12 week isolation letter. I work in a prison. We have one toilet, bath and kitchen. How can I go to work and keep my wife safe? It’s impossible.
– Will COVID-19 become less deadly in time?
– If there isn’t anything that can directly kill the virus, is there anything that could at least weaken it?
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