The UK will likely keep in place social distancing measures until the government believes COVID-19 is under control. But what methods are the government implementing to fight the virus?

The first is to fund several projects researching a vaccine for coronavirus. Both the University of Oxford and Imperial College London are running clinical trials to find a vaccine with government funds. Once a vaccine is found and distributed on mass, medical experts expect the COVID-19 pandemic to be over.

The second strategy is to attempt to figure out how much of the population is infected or have previously been infected with the virus and therefore are immune to COVID-19. To do this a new study is being rolled out, testing over 20,000 English households to improve understanding of just how far the virus has spread. Volunteers will have to take regular swab tests to see if they currently have the virus and 1,000 of them will take blood tests, or anti-body tests, to see if they have previously had coronavirus. This will be key to giving the government enough data to see when lockdown measures can start to be relaxed.

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