Over 30million Brits could already have coronavirus, a bombshell study has revealed.

The new research means millions of vulnerable people will be exposed to the deadly bug regardless of Boris Johnson’s tough new social distancing measures.

It means the Imperial College pandemic model – which the Government has used to inform policy – could be fatally flawed.

Oxford professor Sunetra Gupta – who lead the groundbreaking study – hit out at the Government for not being more skeptical about the Imperial results.

She blasted: “I am surprised that there has been such unqualified acceptance of the Imperial model.

“We need immediately to begin large-scale serological surveys — antibody testing — to assess what stage of the epidemic we are in now.”

The Oxford study is based on case data and death reports from the UK and Italy.

It comes after scientists in New York developed a blood test that can detect immunity to coronavirus.

Researchers hope to roll out the cutting-edge antibody detector in the next few days.

Anyone who is verified as having immunity will be allowed to go outside and have full social contact as they can’t transmit the virus.

Antibodies from fighting coronavirus should be detectable after seven days of execution.

But it is still too soon to tell how long the immunity will last.

Test creator Dr Florian Kramer said the it was “cheap, straightforward, and easy to scale.”

He said: “People probably cannot get reinfected once they mount a good immune response and have antibody levels.

“Once that is the case, these people are more likely safe to resume relatively normal activities, without risk of becoming infected or infecting someone else.”

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