Last week the Health Secretary Matt Hancock appealed to businesses and universities to help the government hit its 100,00-a-day testing target. Without a programme of mass testing, thegovernment will not be able to release the country from the present lockdown any time soon. As professor Paul Hunter, infectious disease expert at the University of East Anglia, explained: 'If we are able to roll out a good quality antibody test and find that a substantial proportion of the population is immune, then we will also be able to relax the current restrictions knowing that the infection would not spread as rapidly.”