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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Samuel Lovett

Build reserve testing capacity to tackle next pandemic, UK researchers urge

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Reserve testing capacity should be set up to help the UK better tackle the next pandemic, researchers who helped lead the country’s early Covid response have said.

In a report published in The BMJ journal, scientists from the University of Cambridge said a “human bottleneck”, due to historical cuts in public health funding, delayed the UK’s scale-up of Covid testing in the early stages of the country’s pandemic response.

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