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Johnson Pushes Twice-Weekly Covid Tests to Help Reopen U.K.

  • Covid passport trials to begin; testing at mass sports events
  • Traffic light system proposed for return of global travel
Photographer: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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Everyone in England will be urged to take a coronavirus test twice a week as a new system of Covid passports is assessed for wide-scale use, under Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to reopen the economy after lockdown.

Free test kits will be made available through local pharmacies, community centers and home delivery services, when the new regime goes live on April 9.