The UK government will offer daily lateral flow tests to 100,000 workers in critical industries from Jan. 10 in order to help keep essential services open, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced. Staff working in areas such as food processing, transport, and the Border Force will be sent test kits for every working day, Johnson told a Downing Street news conference on Jan. 4. He said the UK is “in the midst of the fastest growth in COVID cases that we’ve ever known” and the National Health Service (NHS) is moving to a “war footing.” “Previous waves of the pandemic didn’t have a single day with more than 100,000 new cases reported, one day last week we had 200,000 people test positive. And the latest figure today is another 218,000, though that includes some delayed reports,” he said. Johnson said that anyone who thinks the battle against the pandemic is …