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Facing pressure, British government vows 100,000 daily coronavirus tests by end of April
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Britain‘s health minister promised a tenfold increase in the number of daily tests for coronavirus by the end of the month after the government faced criticism for failing to roll out mass checks for health workers and the public.
Appearing for the first time on Thursday since recovering from the virus himself and ending a period of self-isolation, Matt Hancock announced a new strategy to ramp up the UK diagnostics industry. “I am now setting the goal of 100,000 tests per day by the end of this month.
That is the goal and I am determined that we will get there,” he told reporters. The current number being conducted is about 10,000 a day.
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