Operation Moonshot: How Europe hopes to break the lockdown cycle
As the number of COVID-19 cases mount in Britain and across Europe, governments are praying for a vaccine and trialling large-scale testing to get through the crisis.
Battlegrounds in the global fight against COVID-19 turn up in unexpected, even unlikely, places. Last weekend, the front line was the tiny central European nation of Slovakia.
The government somehow managed to blitz 95 per cent of its adult and teenage population – some 3.7 million people – with an antigen swab test in a single weekend. It was, Prime Minister Igor Matovic said, “a great leap forward”.
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