Boris Johnson’s mass testing “moonshot” plan to avoid a second lockdown would trap millions at home needlessly and could be “frankly dangerous”, experts have said. Ministers admitted this morning that the technology needed to return to normality through testing healthy people every day did not yet exist, but argued that there was a need for big ambitions to beat coronavirus. Leaked documents suggested the plan could cost more than £100 billion, but government sources played down the figure and said a true cost had yet to be estimated. Matt Hancock announces Operation Moonshot to the House of CommonsUnder Mr Johnson’s plan, everyone in the country would take a daily coronavirus test and get a “passport to mingle” if it proved negative. The prime minister said that in the absence of a vaccine the

Source: The Times September 10, 2020 11:09 UTC