The initiative is a part of Boris Johnson's Operation Moonshot to test up to a million people a day. Whether people have coronavirus symptoms or not they will be offered the test and will receive their results in half an hour. A target was set for 500,000 tests a day and it's believed ministers will have reached that figure by tomorrow. But there’s a big question mark over whether these tests would actually detect asymptomatic infection. And we all believe that that’s a major source of the spread.”Although testing data suggests that the saliva tests can pick up 96 per cent of positive results.

Source: Daily Mirror October 31, 2020 10:39 UTC