Health Secretary Matt Hancock said people who could prove their immunity to the coronavirus would be allowed to return to "normal life."
The UK plans to roll out"immunity passports" to people who have already contracted COVID-19 to allow them to return to"normal life," the Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Thursday."People who have had the disease have got the antibodies and then have immunity can show that and therefore get back as much as possible to normal life."
"The early results of some of them have not performed well," Hancock said."But we hope the later tests we have got are reliable enough for people to be confident in using." Some tests have demonstrated false positives, detecting antibodies to much more common coronaviruses, Quartz reported. The tests are designed to detect whether a person has developed antibodies to the COVID-19 virus. The antibodies indicate that the tested person was at one time a carrier and may have built up immunity.
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