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Coronavirus: Government set to miss 100,000 test target in 'fistfight' against Covid-19

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A Cabinet minister today admitted the government 'probably won't' hit its target to carry out 100,000 coronavirus tests per day.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock had repeatedly insisted he would meet the target by today, despite the actual number of tests being 52,429 on Tuesday.

Finally today Robert Buckland, the Justice Secretary, accepted the target would probably not be hit on time. He told Sky News: "We'll have the results I think tomorrow. "Even if we don't hit it, and it's probable that we won't, we will in the next few days hit that target.

We're up to 52,000 people being tested, the capacity is rising. "I think it was right to set an ambitious target. And you know, sometimes even if you don't hit the target on the due date the

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