Free lateral flow tests face the axe under plans for living with Covid which Boris Johnson will announce within weeks.
More than £6 billion of public money has been spent on mass testing using the devices.
The new system could mean free tests being provided only in high-risk settings such as care homes, hospitals and schools, and to people with symptoms. Contact tracing by NHS Test and Trace is also likely to be scaled back.
A senior Whitehall source said: “I don’t think we are in a world where we can continue to hand out free lateral flow tests to everybody for evermore. It’s likely we will move to a scenario where there is less testing but where we have a capacity to ramp it
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2022-01-09 12:30:00Z
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