U.K. Warned About Danger of Cutting Back on Covid Testing (1)

The U.K.’s chief medical officer and other scientists warned that it’s crucial that they are able to keep tabs on Covid-19, raising concern about the government’s plan to cut back on free coronavirus tests.

In the early days of the pandemic, “we didn’t know how much disease there was and where” and gaining testing abilities “transformed things,” Chris Whitty said at a conference on the future of Covid Thursday. He expressed concern about “keeping the ability to survey to understand where we are.”

The comments came on the day Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government plans to end the availability ...