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Britons reject Johnson's call to take two Covid tests a week, CDC ramps up R&D on variant first found in India, and other pandemic-related news across the globe

Britons reject Boris Johnson’s call to take 2 Covid tests per week

Boris Johnson’s government has always maintained that mass testing is the key to the UK getting back to normal, after suffering one of the worst death tolls from coronavirus in the world. However, the number of rapid tests for coronavirus being carried out in England fell to just over five million per week at the start of May, from a high of 7.6 million in the week to March 17 when schools reopened after the winter lockdown. This is despite a government campaign calling on members of the public