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Community testing for coronavirus and flu is set to be introduced this winter, in a bid to establish an early warning system for hospitals.
The UK Health Security Agency will announce plans in the next few weeks to increase surveillance of circulating viruses.
The Covid-19 infection survey, which stopped this year, regularly tested a random sample of households, regardless of whether they had symptoms, to determine circulating levels of the virus.
The system is expected to work in a similar fashion but also involve testing samples for more than one type of infection.
At present, there is no widespread testing system for coronavirus or influenza outside of hospital patients. But any rise in hospitalisations tends to lag behind a rise in infections by around a