UK coronavirus death toll hits 33,614 after another 428 more die
that could help ease lockdown in the UK has been given the go-ahead by Public Health England.
No10 is now keen to get its hands on "as many of these as possible" after the potentially game-changing kit was developed by Swiss healthcare company Roche. The test supports the detection of antibodies in patients who have been exposed to coronavirus and will therefore be immune from catching the bug again.
It will be instrumental in the UK lifting strict lockdown measures and allow people to return to work - as the government is grappling with how the UK economy is on course for a huge recession. Yesterday it was revealed national economic growth slumped by a massive 5.8 per cent in just March alone.could harm the coronavirus "bounce back" and could make a recession even worse.
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