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MINISTERS are working to save Christmas from the coronavirus and are prepared to do “whatever it takes” to keep families together this year.
The government hopes to implement three million coronavirus tests a day and have a vaccine available by December, according to The Telegraph.
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But if these plans fail, there is a backup plan in place to help Brits enjoy the holiday period.
It could be suggested that families isolate themselves two weeks before Christmas so that they can be safely reunited in groups of more than six.
But the Health Department has said that nothing can be guaranteed at this stage.
On Friday it was revealed that the UK is in debt of £ 2 trillion for the first time.
The government has borrowed a whopping £ 173.7 billion between April and August.
With just three months left until Christmas, sources in the testing community have confirmed the government’s plans to help keep the nation’s favorite time of year as “normal” as it can be.
Another plan being considered was to close schools early to allow a voluntary two-week quarantine for families who wish to reunite in larger groups.
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Since Christmas falls on a Friday this year, most schools will be broken on Friday, December 18, which means that the end of the term will have to be brought forward to December 11.
Government officials are even considering a two-week quarantine after Christmas, which means a month-long Christmas break from December 11 to January 10.
Operation Moonshot aims to have ten million daily Covid tests to be distributed under the new government plans costing £ 100 billion.
The entire UK population could be screened in a week under Downing Street’s ambitious Operation Moonshot program.
Boris Johnson promised to implement new tests that can deliver results in just 15 minutes.
He said a negative result would give the British a “freedom pass”, allowing people to blend in as they did before Covid.
But this morning Transportation Secretary Grant Shapps admitted that the new technology was not yet ready.
He told Sky News: “This is a technology that, to be perfectly robust, requires further development – there is no certified test in the world that does this, but there are people who are working on prototypes.”
He added: “We know this is not easy to achieve, but we hope that through technology and new tests it will be possible to have a test that works by not having to return the sample to a laboratory.”
Britain will increase its testing capacity from 300,000 a day to 500,000 by the end of October.
And after that, the ministers want to roll out massive tests for everyone as soon as possible.
The prime minister said last night: “Through that Moonshot of daily tests, everyone gets a rapid response test in the morning, 15 minutes later you know if you are infectious or not.”
He added: “Our plan will require a giant collaborative effort from government, business, public health professionals, scientists, logistics experts and many, many more.
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“The work is underway, and we will advance apace until we get there, all day long. We are hopeful that this approach will go mainstream in the spring. “
Ministers have drawn up plans to inject £ 100bn into the program, according to a document leaked to the British Medical Journal, but this was downplayed by government sources.
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