gray is the civil servant leaving the investigation —— leading. let me know what you were doing on the 20th of may during that first lockdown and whether you want to hear the prime minister state immediately whether or not he was at drinks party in the downing street garden. anyone who records a positive lateral flow test in england, but doesn't have symptoms, no longer needs to take a pcr from today. it's hoped the relaxation of testing rules will improve the speed of pcr tests for key workers, amid concerns about staff shortages. northern ireland, scotland and wales have already implemented the change. sor) well obviously, if you don't do a pcr test then you won't have the confirmatory test because we know the pcr test is more accurate. and that also, if there aren't pcr test from the people who are isolating, then there is less genomic sequencing will go on and so that may mean that it's more difficult to trace the variant in the population.