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What did we learn from the UK briefing?

Today's government press conference was held by Health Secretary Matt Hancock. He was joined by deputy chief medical officer, Jonathan Van Tam, and the government's testing co-ordinator, Prof John Newton.

Here's what they told us:

A pilot of the government's track and trace strategy, with human contact tracing and an app, will start on the Isle of Wright this week. It will allow people to log coronavirus symptoms and inform those who may have been exposed to the virus that they need to isolate
The government aims to have the entire track and trace network, including an initial 18,000 contact tracing workers, set up by the middle of May
The daily capacity for testing is 108,000, but not all of the capacity is being used. There has also been some progress on developing antibody tests, which could tell if someone has had the virus
New cases need to fall further for the government to consider policy changes
A huge scientific study is looking into why people from ethnic minorities are more likely to get coronavirus and why they are more likely to die if they become ill

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