Bill Gates is funding a new at-home COVID-19 testing programme and it's already testing 300 people a day

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• Bill Gates has announced he's helping to fund a new COVID-19 scanning program in Seattle.
• The system is called the Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network (SCAN) and will send home nasal swabs to people to sample and monitor the spread of the coronavirus, whether they are unwell or not.
• Gates said SCAN is already scanning 300 people per day, and it will open up for applications from the public. 
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Microsoft billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates is funding a new "disease surveillance" programme that samples the Seattle population for COVID-19.

In a blog post on Tuesday, Gates said it involves sending Seattle citizens self-swab tests they can use at home to collect and send nasal samples to a lab, even if they are not showing symptoms.

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