At this afternoon’s Downing Street press conference officials announced plans for five initial drive-through testing centres, focused initially on the NHS frontline.

While their locations were not announced, it understood one of those being actively looked at is a car park owned by Manchester Airport, proposed partly due to its good transport connections.

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