完整標題：Government pledges to carry out 100,000 tests a day by April after criticism over coronavirus testing
發稿單位：Channel 4 News
發稿時間：2 Apr 2020
撰 稿 者：Channel 4 News
原文連結：https://bit.ly/3499YG0
影片連結: https://youtu.be/-2in3XqPEnU
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影片開頭是英國衛生大臣 Matt Hancock 4/2 承諾政府將在四月底前將日檢測量提升到10萬人。
他針對檢測提出 5 pillars:
1. swab testing in England public health labs & NHS hospitals (每日2萬5);
2. swab testing delivered by commercial partners;
3. blood test (檢查人們血液中是否已從受過感染而存在抗體/免疫力)
4. surveillance (啟動大規模調查，用來估計多少比例的國民已感染冠狀病毒)
5. create national effort for testing
記者的提問都蠻銳利的，其中有問到為何衛生大臣可以優先於一般民眾做檢測(已確認陰性)，後半段有問 WHO 官員中國的數據是否可信，以及 WHO 是否要為全球疫情大爆發負部分責任。還有一些英國各地醫院回報的現狀 (ICU病患快速增加)。
關於新檢測目標的英國政府新聞稿:
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.
註:
英國截至目前為止已有超過四萬人確診，確診死亡率(CFR) 超過 10%。
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