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UK Government vows to test 100,000 people a day by end of April for coronavirus

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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

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