Whitty cutting right across the minister who had said tests would be available next week:
Whitty: Tests won't be available online next week
There has been talk of antibody tests being available to buy online. These tests would allow people to see if they have been infected - meaning they should then be immune.
Chief medical officer Chris Whitty says: “Once we are confident of which tests work… there is a hierarchy of things we need to do.”
First, experts will need to assess what proportion of people get coronavirus without any syptoms, he says.
Then it will be a case of testing NHS workers to “work out who is immune to this infection and who isn’t”, then moving from there to others.
But Prof Whitty adds: “I do not think this is something we will suddenly be ordering online for next week."
Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze