完整标题：Government pledges to carry out 100,000 tests a day by April after criticism over coronavirus testing
发稿单位：Channel 4 News
发稿时间：2 Apr 2020
撰 稿 者：Channel 4 News
原文连结：https://bit.ly/3499YG0
影片连结: https://youtu.be/-2in3XqPEnU
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影片开头是英国卫生大臣 Matt Hancock 4/2 承诺政府将在四月底前将日检测量提升到10万人。
他针对检测提出 5 pillars:
1. swab testing in England public health labs & NHS hospitals (每日2万5);
2. swab testing delivered by commercial partners;
3. blood test (检查人们血液中是否已从受过感染而存在抗体/免疫力)
4. surveillance (启动大规模调查，用来估计多少比例的国民已感染冠状病毒)
5. create national effort for testing
记者的提问都蛮锐利的，其中有问到为何卫生大臣可以优先于一般民众做检测(已确认阴性)，后半段有问 WHO 官员中国的数据是否可信，以及 WHO 是否要为全球疫情大爆发负部分责任。还有一些英国各地医院回报的现状 (ICU病患快速增加)。
关于新检测目标的英国政府新闻稿:
https://bit.ly/349rBFH
The UK will carry out 100,000 tests for coronavirus every day by the end of
this month, Health Secretary Matt Hancock pledged today.
Increased testing for the NHS will form part of a new 5-pillar plan, bringing
together government, industry, academia, the NHS and many others, to
dramatically increase the number of tests being carried out each day.
Professor John Newton the Director of Health Improvement for Public Health
England, has been appointed to help deliver the new plans and bring together
industry, universities, NHS and government behind the ambitious testing
targets.
He will coordinate a national effort with global manufacturers encouraged to
expand their manufacturing capacity here in the UK. Our strongest, home-grown
businesses in life sciences and other industries will be encouraged to turn
their resources to creating and rolling out mass testing at scale, and the
government will support anyone with a scalable scientific idea or innovation
to start a business.
New testing capabilities for the NHS and their families will support staff
who are isolating at home to return safely to work if the test is negative,
and keep themselves and others safe if the test is positive.
Significant progress to increase testing has already taken place across the
country to protect the vulnerable, support our NHS, and ultimately save
lives. New testing centres have been established at the main hotspots of the
disease, and the UK has already conducted more than 152,000 tests. The
5-pillar plan sets targets to expand the UK’s capability further.
The new 5-pillar plan outlines the ambitions to:
Scale up swab testing in PHE labs and NHS hospitals for those with a medical
need and the most critical workers to 25,000 a day in England by mid to late
April, with the aligned testing strategies of the NHS in the Devolved
Administrations benefiting from PHE’s partnership with Roche through a
central UK allocation mechanism;
Deliver increased commercial swab testing for critical key workers in the NHS
across the UK, before then expanding to key workers in other sectors;
Develop blood testing to help know if people across the UK have the right
antibodies and so have high levels of immunity to coronavirus;
Conduct UK-wide surveillance testing to learn more about the spread of the
disease and help develop new tests and treatments; and
Create a new National Effort for testing, to build a mass-testing capacity
for the UK at a completely new scale.
Once widespread testing is available, we will prioritise repeated testing of
critical key workers, to keep them safe and make sure that they do not spread
the virus.
Over time, plans announced today will also see increasing focus on testing to
see if people have already had the virus, to identify if they have the
antibodies that will give them immunity against catching it again. This
science is new and developing, but the aim is for a successful test that can
be rolled out at scale, that could allow critical workers - and then the
wider population - to return to work and their daily lives.
注:
英国截至目前为止已有超过四万人确诊，确诊死亡率(CFR) 超过 10%。
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