Home tests are not going to be available just yet.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52035615
A few other interesting bits in the report as well.
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Prof Whitty said that if everyone kept to social distancing rules, the outbreak was "probably manageable" although he conceded it would be a "close-run thing" for the NHS.
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Prof Ferguson told MPs that he believed the government's current strategy would mean "in some areas of the country, ICUs will get very close to capacity but it won't be breached at a national level".
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The combination of keeping people in their homes and making more NHS resources available is predicted to bring demand down to a level hospitals can manage. There would be some resurgence of cases later, Prof Ferguson said, but these local outbreaks could hopefully be kept at a low level through more intensive testing.
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He told the committee that the latest research suggested as many as half to two-thirds of deaths from coronavirus might have happened this year anyway, because most fatalities were among people at the end of their lives or with other health conditions.
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