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Plan to carry out 100,000 tests a day
Matt Hancock has said that the UK will carry out 100,000 coronavirus tests a day by the end of the month.
The Health Secretary announced that increased testing will form part of a new five pillar plan to dramatically increase the number of tests being carried out each day across the UK.
Public Health England's Professor John Newton has been appointed to coordinate a national effort with global manufacturers to expand their capacity in the UK, rolling out mass testing at scale.
New testing centres have been established at the main hotspots of the disease, with the UK having already conducted more than 152,000 tests.
The five pillar plan includes ambitions to: scale up swab testing in PHE labs and NHS hospitals for critical workers and those with a medical need to 25,000 a day by mid-April; increase commercial swab testing for critical key workers in the NHS; develop blood testing to help people discover whether they have high levels of immunity to coronavirus; conduct surveillance testing to learn more about the spread of the disease; and create a National Effort for testing, to build a mass testing capacity at a completely new scale.
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