UK misses virus testing target for fourth day running | Malay Mail

A Royal Marine from 42 Commando conducts a test at a coronavirus test site in Poole Britain, May 2, 2020. — Reuters pic

Last week, health minister Matt Hancock claimed victory in his quest to expand Britain's testing programme to 100,000 a day by the end of last month when he announced the government had conducted more than 122,000 tests on April 30. The government has placed mass testing and contact-tracing at the top of its agenda as it seeks to unwind a nationwide lockdown, six weeks after ordering businesses to close and citizens to stay at home to slow the virus outbreak.

They point to the fact that around 40,000 testing kits included in the April 30 figure were counted as completed tests at the point they were mailed out, not when they were actually returned or analysed.

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