'Operation Moonshot' mass coronavirus testing was supposed to happen in Salford. What went wrong?
A lack of chemicals at a Manchester lab held Salford back from rolling out the mass testing pilot announced in September, the local authority has said.Salford council did not receive the reassurances it required from government to progress with the saliva-based test trial, a leading Labour councillor has claimed.It comes months after the Prime Minister promised Salford would be among the first to trial mass community testing, dubbing it 'operation moonshot'.But speaking via video conference at a full council meeting on Wednesday, councillor Gina Reynolds said the government set 'unachievable' goals.The Langworthy representative also told councillors that there was limited availability of 'consumables' at the Manchester lab used to analyse