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Testing Times: Viral surveillance and social control in post-lockdown societies

12 June 2020: Over the past couple of months there have been serious and sustained attempts by the vast majority of countries and territories across the world to “ramp up” Covid-19 testing capacity, improve efficiency and accuracy in testing, and test more widely and rapidly than heretofore. These efforts continue in many parts of the world, and combined with efforts to establish effective contact-tracing operations, they are essential to efforts to progressively relax “lockdown” restrictions in the weeks and months ahead so that some form of “normality” can be re-established in the wake of the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet even under tight and well-regulated social distancing protocols, new transmissions of Covid-19 will inevitably arise as interpersonal interactions increase and social contact chains begin to be restored. The role of testing within this regulated