We are delighted at the continued support from the scientific and diagnostic community, as we reach over 200 submissions on the crowdsourcing platform launched to solve pressing challenges in COVID-19 testing.

We have also now added a fifth challenge, asking for examples of small volume blood collection for rapid serology testing.We are sharing further solutions which we believe, firstly, have potential for rapid uptake and, secondly, can address the current challenges in testing at scale.

We continue to ask for your help in understanding how these approaches work in practice. Do please consider these approaches where they fit your local context, and continue to test and validate these so we can begin to take your feedback.

Professor Dame Sue Hill, Chief Scientific Officer, NHS England and Improvement 

Professor Jo Martin, President, Royal College of Pathologists

On behalf of the moderators’ group.

This post was edited on May 6, 2020 by Rob King