The UK Government has announced ambitious plans to test 100,000 people per day for coronavirus by the end of April as the UK death toll rose to nearly 3,000 - an overnight rise of 569.
After several days of intense scrutiny over failures in testing, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he was setting out a new "five-pillar" strategy on testing.
He said the UK would hit 100,000 tests per day, which can be made up of antigen tests that tell people whether they currently have Covid-19, as well as antibody tests to see whether people have previously had the infection.
Hancock, who has recovered from Covid-19 and came out of self-isolation on Thursday, said he came back "redoubled in my determination to fight this virus with everything