LIVERPOOL – Hundreds of people were tested for the coronavirus in the English city of Liverpool as Britain's first mass coronavirus testing program got underway Friday, a long-awaited development that has been touted as a potential game-changer in the U.K.'s battle against the virus.Long lines of residents formed outside the city's six new test centers, which opened at midday and are set to stay in place for a couple of weeks.
The centers located at the Exhibition Centre Liverpool and at local sports facilities are providing lateral flow — or swab — tests with a turnaround time of under an hour for the estimated half-million people who live and work in Liverpool the city and do not have COVID-19 symptoms.