- If you know you are infected you can isolate quickly and prevent the spread of infection
- You know you have had the infection, recovered and have antibodies
- Identify "at risk" people/employees
- Reduce potentially unnecessary self isolation
- To better understand how the virus is spreading in a community
- To predict future impact on a family, group, workforce or community
- Enables tailoring of safety measures in the workplace such as social distancing
- Enables close contact occupations to begin early and safely
- Allows people to return to work more quickly when they know they have had the virus
- Allow people to return to normal activities more quickly when they know they aren't infected by CV-19
The director general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “We cannot stop this pandemic if we do not know who is infected.”
Prime Minister Boris Johnson echoed his assertion, stating in a video posed on Twitter: “I want to say a special word about testing, because it is so important and as I have said for weeks and weeks, this is the way through."
“This is how we will unlock the coronavirus puzzle. This is how we will defeat it in the end.”
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