Coronavirus: Tony Blair says 'virtually everybody' in UK may have to be tested

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Coronavirus: Former PM Tony Blair says 'virtually everybody' in UK may have to be tested for COVID19

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GP Richard van Mellaerts said more widespread testing was needed.

"And it's so crucial with healthcare workers that we know who's infected, who's not, who's immune, who's not. So that we can get as many people back out into the workforce as quickly as possible." "I don't know the exact proportion of nurses in that, 20% to 25%, so there are a number of nurses who would like to be tested to get on with their job if they are not positive for COVID-19."The search for a vaccine is continuing and there are at least eight"in the pipeline", according to former chief scientific adviser Sir Mark Walport.

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Consider this number 0.160594659080481 .... 7000 tests per day across 43588 town/villages in UK ; it would take 6.22 days to do just 1 test per each town/village..To test 65.64m (2016 data) would only take..9377 days or 25.69 years. Do the figures tally up now? Coronavirustruth

Not true. In public health emergencies like CoronavirusOutbreak we target people WITH SYMPTOMS and contacts of index cases as PRIORITY

What’s it got to do with him, he’s a had been and not in the Government.

I agree

I don’t want that stick up my nose 🙅🏼‍♀️

This crook should be in jail, what's he doing sprouting garbage. Lock him up

Don't be ridiculous

There must be money in it for him.

Good idea is he going to pay for the test kits ? Made enough money since he left sticking his nose in everything and doing nothing .

Who was it within Blair's circle of influence who said to him, 'Tony, y'know. The time has come for you to say a few words to the British public and bring some damned common sense into this crisis, because clearly, it is only you who can do this. People listen to you.'?

Hate the twat, but he has a point unfortunately

Don’t care if you all hate him. He’s spot on about that.

So much for your global open borders. What a disappointment you are to the world

T-RUMP LYING TO THE PEOPLE. THE UK WASTING A CRAP LOAD OF RESOURCES AND MONEY. IS TONY A LIL SLOW OR JUST PAID FOR BY T-RUMP.....

🤣 Beast system

Is that prick still sticking his nose where it’s not wanted. He should be in prison for war crimes

Thank God this never happened in his tenure. Perish the thought 😲

Tell him to get back in his hole, He had his go (don't we know it)

Feck off Tony ya stroker.

No s*it sherlock!

Based of course on his highly extensive education in both the arenas of science and medicine. Cheers. Take the politics out of this be man and support the elected government. bequiet

He’s an ex politician. What credentials does he have to make him an authority on this topic? None! Stop wasting airtime takiking to nonentities like him.

What would we do without Blair's occasional pearls of fairly obvious wisdom?

No no and no! We don't agree with you sucker:(

I hope he gets it

Keep your nose out stating the obvious again.

1.) Why does he think his opinion is relevant? 2.) No one cares what he thinks.

why would anyone listen to a war criminal again ?

So please ask Mr B Liar where we are going to get 65 million plus testing kits from? Plus the qualified staff to process the tests?

Only him and the odious Campbell will test positive for war crimes.

He’s scaring the elderly and the vulnerable he’s not even in government, sky shouldn’t even be interviewing him. Just shut up 🤐 man

Get his mug off my feed

No shit ! Well done clever clogs 👍

Nobody listened to him when he was PM so why start now

The British have been testing, the test kits...rightly so. The Netherlands and Spain have claimed they only have a 30 - 35% success rate. What is the point of tons of false positives and false negatives. We have been right to be cautious.

He just won't flush, will he?

How?

Bet that w⚓ been tested b4 any front line NHS staff....

If Blair was in charge everyone would be tested within 45 minutes and if the science disagreed with him and Campbell you get taken for a walk in the woods.

Oh do shush.. let the real government sort it out love.

can't we have a annual purge considering we're on lockdown ? where all crime is legal for 24 hrs

If they test everybody they could get the true population of the UK at the same time.

Tony who?

Well duh! 🙄

No shit Sherlock

Tony Blair is clueless.

How dare Sky give this man credibility. Tony Blair is one of the most reviled politicians we have ever produced. For those interested, Bow Street Magistrates in 1974 and 1983 make interesting reading. We don't need him to tell us the obvious we have legitimate people for that.

This clown has killed more people than covid 19, should shut up and be locked up.

The same Tony Blair that deployed thousands of troops to Iraq for no real reason.

He needs his head tested for dragging us into the Iraqi war and creating a refugee crisis in Europe...

He's also a complete bellend! Next..

Shut up. Keep thinking about what you did in Iraq. You are no longer on the world stage and though you keep trying to whitewash your past we don't forget. You have blood on your hands and all history will not was them clean.

Well said Tony 2020 advancement of cable people innovation and logistics and calling on private sector in these uncertain times. This man speaks with over ten years experience in government. Listen to his experience. Let’s be better prepared.

Who is he, clearly trying to get his name back out there.

I've been saying this for a while now!

Why ? Why are you putting this war criminal on our screens? MSM is so left

That is a huge point Mr. Tony Blair, God bless you, that is the only way forward and every city need to be tested q👍

Thank God for common sense!

Not by Dr David Kelly though

Band wagon warmongering creep

Mass testing like weapons of mass destruction

Trying to stay relevant, how many innocents did he take part in killing again?

That I do agree with him on.

Why is this war criminal on TV?

bliarthebastard slithers out from his mansion, and tells us what we already know. How much has he fleeced off tax payers again? He should be on trial for lies about WMD and Iraq amongst other things. Traitor

And of course we should all listen to Blair who has great experience in scientific matters! Did he not lie about Saddam having WMDs? We gain nothing from wasting money testing everyone. So suggest you shove Blair where the sun does not shine.

black situation

Tony Blair always comes out when they are trying to push something on the public...we’re not that thick.

Why are people retweeting this interview?

Tony who?

Is there a virtual test available? Fortnite or Minecraft, which is the more reliable?

A) Bliar B) ‘Virtually’ C) ‘may’ Top ‘news’, Sky.

war criminal still about giving advice sky must be desperate to give him air time, but there again better than scare mongering and twisting government words

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION........ TonyBlairEpsteinPeadophileIsland

Fuck me he’s come out of hibernation

He also said there were chemical weapons in Iraq,

Has he found all the chemicals?

And we’d listen to him because..........?

He killed more innocent people in Iraq

Thank God for Tony B Liar! No one would have guessed that testing everyone might help!!!!!! Back in your box now please, hopefully that box would be in a jail cell at The Hague!

He's write though, would rather the government put the money into testing instead of a letter to everyone saying the bloody obvious. I've had it, and would like to know if I stand a chance of not getting it again. There blind they haven't a clue.

10,000 a day , that’ll take about 2 years 🤷‍♂️

And. Butt out

The media junkie is back again ..... loves the sound of his own voice

There's no 'may' about it. Testing (for immunity) 'has' to be done but it won't happen...and you know why.

Virtually everyone in the UK thinks he is an opportunist POS who deserves to be locked up for war crimes! Let’s get that trending! ArrestBlairForWarCrimes

This man may be tested Iraq+

Who rattled his cage... 😒

he can assholes as usual....

Especially those who believe you and support UKLabour

We are at war Mr Blair germ warfare who shall we invade we await your instructions like we did Iraq

Why do you continue to give this excuse of a man warmonger a platform sky?

How much was he paid for that interview?

Note sure the corona virus is as deadly as the tony Blair virus yet

Why is that such a revelation? Of course we should all be tested

Sooo much stuff going about don't know what believe. Is the average deaths in the UK on a normal basis around 10,000 per month? Covid19 'related' deaths this month 1000? Minus the number who may of died anyway of their existing conditions brings the number down significantly?

If Our own Government are trying to return back after 7 days ? what example does that set for the public? The Answer is proving/testing to see if once you have had coronas ( you cannot get it again) Once this is actually proven Then we can step forward Tony Blair was speculating.

Why are you giving this clown airtime? Just stop it now please..

So what if half a million die who tested positive. So what. 540,000 died last year and nobody batted an eyelid. And half a million will die next year, and every year. Just an average year.

Tell him to fu*k off.

UKGoverment knew months ago about the COVID19 the who advised about to put in place strong measures to prevent spread TESTTESTTEST and equipment PPE to ProtectOurNHS. Nothing done People lockdownuk without prevention and care risking to contamination inside the family

Idiot

Hello somebody mention Big money... Blair’s back.

Let's build a DNA databank whilst we're at it.

War criminal!

You need your head testing you horrible CXXX.

Cheers Tony. I’m glad you’re here 🙄

It would be good to know how many tests Blair’s had, so far?

He also said Sadam had womd!

He was talking a lot of sense. If Labour and SNP can get behind the National plan it's maybe time for ill-informed journalists/presenters to stop creating confusion and hysteria.

Wakey wakey people

Sod off Blair, nobody is interested in ur views ur a war criminal who belongs in jail!!

This virus does not harm 99% of the population. The rest were going to die this year anyway, from cancer, heart disease, organ failure, strokes..... Stop the fear mongering, stop the hysteria, stop the paranoia.

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