The COVID-19 Winter Plan, published 23 November, relies on three factors to provide the UK with a “route back to normality”: vaccines, treatments and testing. In addition to PCR testing, lateral flow devices are now being rolled out across England and Wales for the rapid testing of certain occupational groups, community testing and as an alternative to self-isolation following exposure to the virus. How well validated have these tests been? Are they accurate enough for their proposed purposes? And how have they performed to date in mass testing trials?
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World population (231 KB, PDF)
The human population is growing by nearly 100 million people every year. This is faster than predicted ten years ago, and the UN has had to revise upwards its forecasts of future populations. It now predicts that global population could double or even triple from its current 5,300 million.
This POSTnote examines the underlying trends in global population, the reasons for them, their implications and related issues.
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World population (231 KB, PDF)
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