London: The UK has shot past its 100,000 daily coronavirus tests target set for the end of April with 122,347 testing on Thursday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced on Friday.
Addressing the daily Downing Street briefing, the senior minister hailed the “audacious" testing goal being met by a coordinated team effort as he revealed a further 739 deaths from COVID-19, taking the country’s toll from the pandemic to 27,510. "At the beginning of last month, I set a goal that anyone who needs a test should get a test.
That as a nation we should achieve 100,000 per day by the end of the month," Hancock said. "I knew it was an audacious goal, but we needed an audacious goal because testing is so important.