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Coronavirus tests to be made available as hundreds of thousands volunteer for NHS
CORONAVIRUS home-testing kits will be made available widely after being distributed next week, it was reported today.
The tests, which can be carried out in 15 minutes, will be targeted at people in quarantine at home and will be available from pharmacists.
An initial 3.5 million kits have been bought by Public Health England (PHE), but more have been ordered.
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