The Government has pursued both mass antibody testing (to identify who previously had covid-19) and mass diagnostic testing (to identify those currently infected) as means to return to normality. In its April 2020 testing strategy, the Government said it was “committed to mass testing” and stated its “overall ambition is to provide enough swab tests for everyone that needs one”.288 On 9 September 2020, the Prime Minister announced the Government’s “moonshot” plan with the ambition to use rapid covid-19 tests “on a far bigger scale than any country has yet achieved–literally millions of tests processed every 281 Qq343–344 282 Institute of Biomedical Science (CLL0083) 283 Q344 284 HC oral questions, 20 May 2020, Vol 676 [Commons Chamber] 285 UK Prime Minister Facebook, ‘PM Boris Johnson holds the daily press conference: 18 March 2020’, accessed 17 September 2021 286 GOV.UK, ‘Prime Minister’s statement on coronavirus (COVID-19): 9 September 2020’, accessed 17 September 2021 287 Q920 288 Department of Health and Social Care, Coronavirus: Scaling up our testing programmes, 4 April 2020 68 Coronavirus: lessons learned to date single day”.289 He also stated that this plan would “allow people to lead more normal lives, without the need for social distancing”. The Prime Minister expressed hope that by Christmas 2020, venues such as theatres could benefit from mass-scale rapid testing and that the technology would be “widespread by the spring”.290