LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s health ministry said on Tuesday it had bought 1 million COVID-19 antibody tests that can indicate whether someone has had the disease within 20 minutes.
The Department of Health said it had bought the tests, which use a fingerprick device and do not need to be sent to a lab, from the UK Rapid Test Consortium, and that they would be rolled out as part of the government’s COVID-19 surveillance studies.
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge and Costas Pitas, writing by Alistair Smout; editing by Stephen Addison)
