coronavirus testing after a "very encouraging" trial in Liverpool, it has been announced.Around 1,000 soldiers will be deployed to help more than 100,000 residents get Covid-19 swabs, a government source has revealed.One of the towns is in the Midlands and another in the South East with Boris Johnson set to identify them as early as tomorrow, The Times reports.The move is to see if the mass-testing scheme aimed at identifying asymptomatic coronavirus infections in Liverpool can work in smaller areas.A senior government source told the paper: "The point about mass testing is that if you can test a lot of people who have the virus, but don't have symptoms, and you can get them to isolate, you can reduce the spread of the disease."Further.