LONDON (Reuters) – The British government announced a 7-billion-pound ($9.3-billion) increase in funding for its COVID-19 testing and contact tracing system, as part of an expanded programme of mass testing and plans to test frontline staff more regularly.
“This strategy is backed by an additional 7 billion (pounds) for NHS Test and Trace to increase testing and continue to improve contact tracing, taking the overall funding provided for Test and Trace this financial year to 22 billion (pounds),” the government said in its COVID-19 winter plan, published on Monday.
(Reporting by William James, editing by Estelle Shirbon)
