Over 5,000 members of the UK military are now involved in tackling the CCP virus, from testing to vaccine rollout, in what the Ministry of Defence describes as their biggest ever peacetime operation. More members of the armed forces are now involved than during the previous spring peak of the pandemic. On Monday, 800 soldiers from nine British Army regiments were deployed to Manchester to help carry out asymptomatic testing of certain groups who are more likely to catch the virus—such as social care staff, bus drivers, and care home workers. “The task builds on lessons from previous asymptomatic community testing in Liverpool, Lancashire, Merthyr Tydfil, Medway, and Kirklees,” the Ministry of Defence said in a statement. “In addition to community testing, military personnel remain on-task testing hauliers in Dover and helping to establish ten new testing sites to improve the flow of traffic across the Channel.” Over 500 military …