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News 3^rd September
UK will have some trials where people can have tests every week through the winter to try to reduce the virus.  This is only in some areas of the country – in Salford and also in Southampton.  They also hope that there will be a quick test with results in 15 minutes.  Scientists say that taking a pinprick (on your thumb) blood test as well will be more accurate.
Problems because 8 teenagers had the virus on a flight from Crete but health people did not tell the airline and so there has been a big delay in trying to contact all the people on that flight.  Some say the only answer is to test people at the airport.
Heathrow Airport says it is asking staff to take a pay cut up to 20%.  If not, then there will be job losses.  They will discuss with the Unions.
What happens when two black holes crash together?  There is a huge explosion and they collapse together.  It is like the “Big Bang” which scientists think was the beginning of the Universe.  Wow!  This is BIG SCIENCE.  So what is a Black Hole?  It is an area in space where everything has become so packed together that nothing can escape – even light cannot leak out.  These exist across the Universe.  Black Holes happen when a sun dies out – all the gas is burned up.  It just collapses.  Sometimes two black holes come together and crash.  This can make a new bigger Black Hole.  In this crash, the new Black Hole is 150 times the size of our sun.  How do they know all this?  Just like any crash there is a huge impact and wave is sent out in all directions.  This wave eventually reached Earth – it took 7 billion years to arrive.