All residents and workers in Liverpool offered Covid-19 testing

The aim is to find asymptomatic cases in order to help prevent and reduce transmission in the community (PA)

Coronavirus tests will be offered to everyone across Liverpool in a pilot of mass testing in England.

Anyone living or working in the city can be tested regularly from Friday, even if they have no symptoms, in an approach which British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said “has the potential to be a powerful new weapon in our fight against Covid-19”.