Coronavirus: UK exceeds 200,000 testing capacity target
The UK has exceeded its target to increase coronavirus testing capacity to 200,000 a day by the end of May.Health Secretary Matt Hancock described it as"an important milestone on our journey to control the spread of the virus".It takes the total number of people who have died after testing positive to 38,489.
For several days, the government has been unable to give figures on the exact number of people who were tested.The UK now has capacity for 40,000 antibody tests a day, the Department for Health and Social Care confirmed. The capacity figure also includes tests being sent out to a random cross-section of society by statisticians, as well as those conducted on people actually displaying symptoms.his"ambition" was to reach capacity to conduct 200,000 tests a day by the end of the month"and then go even higher".At the start of the coronavirus outbreak the UK's limited testing capacity was dwarfed by the number of possible new infections.
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